''Der Bote'' ('The Messenger') was a

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Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...

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published in

Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

, by

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. ''Der Bote'' was first published 16 January 1924 as ''Der Mennonitische Immigrantenbote'' by Dietrich H. Epp at

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, to serve as a point of contact for German-speaking

Russian Mennonite The Russian Mennonites (german: Russlandmennoniten it. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites who are descendants of Dutch Anabaptists who settled for abo ...

s immigrating to

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after

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. In 1926 the name was shortened to simply ''Der Bote''. Around this time, the size of the paper was increased to 25 by 19 inches from 9½ by 12½. In 1947, ''Der Bote'' merged with ''Christlicher Bundesbote'' and became the weekly paper for the

General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join ...

. By 1950, circulation was 4500, of which 1000 were distributed in Europe and South America as a service to immigrants. In January 2000 the publication frequency was reduced to 24 times a year and the format reduced to letter size. In 2006, it had approximately 2350 subscribers, down from 9000 in the mid 1970s, with circulation in

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and other European countries. On 30 March 2008 the newspaper closed down and ceased publication due to declining readership.

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