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| 1950 |
| | | US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Black American Malcolm Little, who has joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, adopts the surname X to symbolize his rejection of his slave name | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood | |
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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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| 1959 |
| | | The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives | |
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