Huge Popularity.

Billy Graham entered the decade as the most famous Protestant preacher in the world. His swift movement from tent revivals to huge stadium events round the world, his effective use of radio and television, and his organization that was able to coordinate his activities as well as maintain his financial integrity made him consistently one of the most admired men in the nation. Graham continued his crusades, as he called his revivals, speaking in London, Tokyo, Yugoslavia, and Latin America, as well as in Canada and the United States. Like the Vatican, Graham had a pavilion at the New York World's Fair (1964-1965).

World Congress on Evangelism.

One of his important activities was working with the World Congress on Evangelism, which met in Berlin in 1966. The congress, reminiscent of the great evangelistic conferences of the turn of the century, brought together representatives from around the...