The War Cry

{{Short description|Charity newspaper}} {{other uses|War cry (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} {{The Salvation Army}} '''''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== 250px|thumb|left|The War Cry, a 1904 edition

The first edition of ''The War Cry'' was printed on 27 December 1879 in London, England.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/eacd2a5716f7d69580256962003cd90c!OpenDocument |title=History of the War Cry |access-date=23 June 2007 |archive-date=12 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212180158/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/eacd2a5716f7d69580256962003cd90c!OpenDocument |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/usc/ |title=The War Cry in the United States |access-date=23 June 2007 |archive-date=1 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401172423/http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/usc |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Notes and references== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.salvationist.ca/ The War Cry page] of The Salvation Army in Canada (now known as ''Salvationist'') *[http://www.warcry.org.au/ The War Cry page] of The Salvation Army in Australia *[http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry The War Cry page] of The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland *[http://www.thewarcry.com The War Cry page] of The Salvation Army in the USA

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