Word: snubbed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Early in January the mainland Chinese government fought another battle in its long campaign to stamp out religious activity outside of its control. In a deliberate snub to the Vatican, the Chinese authorities refused to the Pope's candidates for three empty bishoprics of the government-sanctioned branch of the Catholic Church in China and instead installed its own candidates on the same day the Pope ordained new bishops from all other parts of the world...