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The First International Congress on World Evangelization was a world conference of over 2,000 Evangelical Christian leaders that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974. The conference was called by a committee headed by U.S. evangelist Billy Graham and brought together religious leaders from 150 nations. The conference is noted as having produced the Lausanne Covenant, one of the most influential documents in modern Evangelical Christianity. The Drafting Committee of the convenant was header by John Stott of England.
The Second International Congress on World Evangelization (often called "Lausanne II") was held fifteen years later in Manila.
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