Now ShowingJuly 2014: Signing the Covenant |
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Caption to this photo handed out by the Congress News Center: "Dr. Billy Graham, right, and Anglican Bishop Jack Dain are the first to sign the Lausanne Covenant at the closing exercises of the International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland. Graham and Dain are honorary and executive chairmen of the congress, respectively. Participants were then given the opportunity to add their names. The covenant affirms basic beliefs of evangelical Christians and calls upon Christians the world over to plan and work together to complete the task of world evangelization this century." | ||
July
2014 marks the anniversary of a major event in 20th century Evangelical
Christianity. Forty years ago this month the International Congress
on World Evangelization was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, |
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Card
signed by attendees pf the conference who wished to show their agreement
with the Covenant. It is probably these cards that Rev. Graham and Bishop
Dain are signing in the photo above. |
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Links
to other formats in which the first copies of the Covenant were printed |
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To read the complete text of the Lausanne Covenant at the LCWE web site, click here.
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To learn more about the Archives' collection of documents from the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE), which carries on the work of the Congress, see the guide to Collection 46. |
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