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| 1956 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Pope John XXIII summons a second Vatican Council | |
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| c. 1960 |
| | | Neo-Pentecostalism, also known as Charismatic Renewal, becomes an important element within many Christian denominations | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican begins, 94 years after the start of the First Vatican Council under Pius IX | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Italian cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected pope and takes the name Paul VI | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Second Vatican Council issues a decree recognizing the legitimacy and apostolic origins of many of the beliefs and practices of the Greek Orthodox church | |
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