1956 It Is Written television ministry founded by Seventh-day Adventist pastor George Vandeman 1957 United Church of Christ founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical & Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans 1957 English translation of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch ...: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press 1958 Sedevacantism, the belief that the office of the pope is vacant, begins with the death of Pope Pius XII 1959 Family Radio founded by Harold Camping 1959 Franz Pieper's A Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod reaffirmed by the LCMS 1960 Merger creates the "new" American Lutheran Church 1960 John F. Kennedy becomes the first Roman Catholic to be elected President of the United States 1961 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures published 1961 Christian Broadcasting Network founded by Pat Robertson 1962 Engel v. Vitale, first U.S. Supreme Court decision against School prayer 1962 Karl Rahner, Joseph Ratzinger, Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray, Hans Küng among others appointed "periti" for upcoming Second Vatican Council. Rahner famous for paraphrasing Augustine's axiom: "Many whom God has the Church does not have; and many whom the Church has, God does not have." 1962–1965 Catholic Second Vatican Council, announced by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produces 16 documents which become official Roman Catholic teaching after approval by the Pope, purpose to renew "ourselves and the flocks committed to us" 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Washington, D.C. 1963 A campaign by atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair results in U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting reading of Bible in public schools 1963 Oral Roberts University founded 1963 Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America dissolves in schism 1963 New Testament of Beck's American Translation completed, thousands of copies distributed through The Lutheran Hour 1965 Reginald H. Fuller's The Foundations of New Testament Christology 1965 Rousas John Rushdoony founds Chalcedon Foundation 1965 Nostra aetate declaration promulgated at Vatican II that repudiates the charge of deicide against Jews 1966 Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books abolished 1966 Raymond E. Brown's Commentary on the Gospel of John 1967 Lutheran Council in the United States of America organized 1968 In Zeitoun, Egypt, a bright image of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Zeitoun was seen over the Coptic Orthodox Church of Saint Demiana for over a 3-year period. 1968 United Methodist Church formed