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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10622778/Iranian-women-footballers-to-undergo-gender-tests.html The country's football governing body is bringing in the random checks after it was revealed that several leading players - including four in the national women's team - were either men who had not completed sex change operations, or were suffering from sexual development disorders.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNew...207-120077.html Priest expelled over remarks Sat, Feb 07, 2009 AFP ROME, ITALY - An ultra-conservative Roman Catholic society that has come under fire over a member's denial of the Holocaust said on Friday it had expelled another priest who cast doubt on Nazi gas chambers. The decision by the Italian chapter of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X to cut ties with Floriano Abrahamowicz came a week after the priest criticised the Vatican and said gas chambers were used for 'disinfecting.' 'For some time Don Floriano Abrahamowicz has expressed positions different that those of the Fraternity Saint Pius X,' the group said in a statement. 'The decision to expel him, as painful as it is, has become necessary to avoid a further deterioration of the image of the fraternity and so that its work on behalf of the church is not hurt,' it said. In an interview published last week, Mr Abrahamowicz told the daily La Tribuna di Treviso: 'I know that gas chambers existed at least for disinfecting but I can't say whether they caused deaths because I haven't explored the question in depth.' Abrahamowicz, who was responsible for the society's activities in northeastern Italy, also denounced the 1960s Vatican II reforms as 'worse than heresy.' His remarks came amid a spiraling diplomatic row over Pope Benedict XVI's decision to rescind the excommunication of Richard Williamson, a British-born bishop and fellow Saint Pius member. Following the outcry, the Vatican said on Wednesday Mr Williamson must 'unequivocally and publicly' change his views before he can be admitted to office in the Roman Catholic Church Personally I think, the priest personal believe that there was no gas chamber has nothing to do with religion yet he was expelled from the organisation.