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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
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
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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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![A group of children stand around a colorful parachute on the ground. They are raising their hands in the air.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/hondurashurricanechildren.jpg.webp?itok=FSmOOKNr)
The hope of advocacy
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A Cambodian man in a pink shirt being interviewed](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Cambodia.png.webp?itok=rBaFxZCP)
What can you do with a loan? | Cambodia
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Food
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Cambodia
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Media Type
Video story
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![A woman in a ball cap and a face mask stands in front of a table full of baked goods](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/50503398143_4973d64fa4_c.jpg.webp?itok=O6xfDKcN)
Virtual Relief Sales Exceed Goals
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A group of young adults stand on pavement in a circle. Many of them are holding umbrellas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/prayerwalk2_0.jpg.webp?itok=w-m9TY8m)
Choosing Christ’s way of reconciliation
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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10 steps to deeper engagement in political advocacy
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A family of four in the DR Congo walk together in a field. A child is on the father's shoulders laughing and eating](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs108161_cod20200225_agriculture_ml0275-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=HNV5d9Lx)
Into the next century
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Colorful graffiti on a tall border wall](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/4_ways_border_wall.jpg.webp?itok=dmorNV-m)
5 ways to show compassion to asylum seekers
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A young woman speaking during a webinar zoom call. There is a zoom background of mountains behind her.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%207.png.webp?itok=j0SkrrVz)
Immigration advocacy
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young woman speaking during a webinar zoom call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%206.png.webp?itok=hYoKe9wN)
Church-based immigration legal services
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A young woman with glasses and headphones speaks into the camera during a webinar on zoom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%205.png.webp?itok=iq-6mg7j)
MCC’s migration work in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala/El Salvador
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Migration and Refugees, Health
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El Salvador
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Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A group of Malawi women wait in a line](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs97768distribution1-womeninline-lpr0.jpg.webp?itok=307Yhhxb)
Clean hands and full hearts
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Health
Location
Malawi
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Media Type
Story
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![A young man with a beard and headphone speaks into the camera during a webinar on zoom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Immigration%20webinar%204.png.webp?itok=v5VUe4zt)
Church efforts to address immigration
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
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Media Type
Webinar
computer
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