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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
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Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![Victor Dogos with group in Chad](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs127976_20230215_144441-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=_QlEmUEo)
Pastor receives first Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award
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Peace
Location
Chad
Date
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Peace is more than a wish with some love for enemies
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Peace
Location
Canada
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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MCC Alberta welcomes Ryan Siemens as Executive Director
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Canada
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News
newspaper
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![Sharon and Norm Ewert stand in front of wooden dollhouses.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs116310dollhouse-2.jpg.webp?itok=WTlgeRPU)
Small scale with a big impact
Location
United States + 1 more
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Media Type
Video story
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![A man and woman planting a tree in front of an MCC sign](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs114606_img_6518a-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=Dtw0uURV)
One thousand, one hundred
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Students paint desks at José María Castilla School in Guatemala City.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124085_0z8a1452_1.jpg.webp?itok=ryaR_qVF)
Love in action
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Education
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Guatemala
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Media Type
Story
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A safe space in the thrift shop
Location
British Columbia
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Media Type
Story
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![A group of people stand facing the camera in a backyard with a table of treats in the foreground.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img85261.jpg.webp?itok=x9a6u_vx)
"Far from perfect, but so worth it."
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Migration and Refugees
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Ontario
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Media Type
Story
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![A woman with her arm raised in a church building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/euphrasie_minzambi%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=muVAgf9v)
As the church and MCC work together, peace grows in Kikwit
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Story
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![A man holding a Colombian flag with an added white stripe](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs83378img6609-lpr1_1_0.jpg.webp?itok=27FmlcA9)
La paix est plus qu’un vœu
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Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Walking with newcomers
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Indiana
Date
Media Type
Story
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State of Exception in El Salvador
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Conflict
Location
El Salvador
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Podcast/audio
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