Christian Courier (Canada)
Canadian monthly Christian newspaper
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The Christian Courier is a Canadian monthly Christian newspaper co-edited by Meghan Kort and Maaike VanderMeer[1].
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| Type | Monthly newspaper |
|---|---|
Editor-in-chief | Meghan Kort, Maaike VanderMeer |
| Founded | August 1945 |
| Language | English |
| Country | Canada |
| ISSN | 1192-3415 |
| Website | www |
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] In 2026, Christian Courier has 1,500 print subscribers in Canada and the U.S.A.
Christian Courier is a non-profit news organization. It was originally bimonthly, changed to weekly in 1954, and monthly in 2020.[2] It has roots in the Christian Reformed Church community, and historically reported on issues such as trade unions, Christian education, and women in office.[6] It is independent of any denomination but keeps its reformed roots. [7]