The ''Christian Courier'' is a Canadian monthly Christian newspaper. The editor-in-chief is Angela Reitsma Bick.
The periodical was established in August 1945 as the ''Canadian Calvinist'', an English-language publication targeted at
Dutch Canadians
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. Paul De Koekkoek was the founding editor.
In 1951 it merged with ''Contact'' (a Dutch-language newspaper which had started in 1949) to become ''Calvinist Contact''. ''Calvinist Contact'' was all in Dutch and this gradually developed to be all in English by 1983.
It adopted its current name in 1992.
At this point the circulation was 5,000, down from a peak of 10,000 in the 1970s.
As of 2015, it had 2,100 print subscribers.
''Christian Courier'' was originally bimonthly, changed to weekly in 1954, and monthly in 2020.
It originally served the
Christian Reformed Church community, and reported on issues such as
trade unions
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,
Christian education Christian education may refer to:
* Catechesis, a type of Christian education associated with the Roman Catholic church and churches that follow a liturgical paradigm
*Sunday school, a form of Christian education used widely among many different ki ...
, and
women in office.
References
External links
* {{official, https://www.christiancourier.ca/
Monthly newspapers
Christian newspapers
Newspapers established in 1945
Bilingual newspapers
National newspapers published in Canada
Dutch-language newspapers
Bimonthly newspapers
Weekly newspapers published in Canada