- — Europe:
The Second Vatican Council
Opened by John XXIII on 11 October 1962 in Saint Peter's and concluded under Paul VI in 1965, Vatican II reformed the worship, self-understanding and outward relations of the Roman Catholic Church.
Era: Vatican II, the Modern Papacy and a World Patrimony
Sources: Second Vatican Council · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
Albania declared an atheist state
The Hoxha regime launched a campaign against religion, closing mosques and churches and proclaiming Albania the world's first officially atheist state.
Era: The Second World War and Hoxha's Stalinist Albania
Sources: Enver Hoxha · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Albania · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Religion in the 1960s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1960s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1962 to 1967. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1962
- Latest
- 1967
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.