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Type | Monthly newspaper |
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Editor-in-chief | Angela Reitsma Bick |
Founded | August 1945 |
Language | English |
Country | Canada |
ISSN | 1192-3415 |
Website |
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The Christian Courier is a Canadian monthly Christian newspaper. The editor-in-chief is Angela Reitsma Bick. [1]
The periodical was established in August 1945 as the Canadian Calvinist, an English-language publication targeted at Dutch Canadians. Paul De Koekkoek was the founding editor. [2] In 1951 it merged with Contact (a Dutch-language newspaper which had started in 1949) to become Calvinist Contact. [3] Calvinist Contact was all in Dutch and this gradually developed to be all in English by 1983. [2] It adopted its current name in 1992. [2] At this point the circulation was 5,000, [4] down from a peak of 10,000 in the 1970s. [5] As of 2015, it had 2,100 print subscribers. [5]
Christian Courier was originally bimonthly, changed to weekly in 1954, and monthly in 2020. [2] It originally served the Christian Reformed Church community, and reported on issues such as trade unions, Christian education, and women in office. [6]