The War Cry

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The War Cry is the official news publication of The Salvation Army. Today, national versions of it are sold in countries all over the world to raise funds in support of the Army's social work.

History[edit]

The first edition of The War Cry was printed on 27 December 1879 in London, England.^[1] In 1880, US Salvation Army Commissioner George Scott Railton published the Salvation News, a small newsletter. He published the first US edition of The War Cry in January 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri. Between 1920 and 1970, each U.S. territory published its own individual version of The War Cry. In 1970, the Salvation Army's US National Headquarters started publishing a nationwide version of The War Cry.^[2]

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External links[edit]

• The War Cry page of The Salvation Army in Canada (now known as Salvationist)
• The War Cry page of The Salvation Army in Australia
• The War Cry page of The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland
• The War Cry page of The Salvation Army in the USA

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