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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
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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
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![Family of eight stand with an IVEP participant in front of a Christmas tree.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Zimmerman%20family%20with%20Innocent.jpg)
The nudge
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
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![Six women wearing ethnic attire stand in front of an arc of blue and yellow balloons.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Maria.jpg)
God always shows His care
Guatemala + 1 more
Jun 2024
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![A crowd of people stand outside a brick building](/sites/default/files/2024-06/PXL_20240530_100714452-1.jpg)
MCC responds to disastrous floods in Burundi with local partners
- Disaster response
Burundi
Jun 2024
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![Emmanuel Billay Mussamba (right) of PPR (Programme for Peace and Reconciliation), who Michael Sharp worked with, talking with Mwasa Niyon Senga, a former rebel combatant who returned to Rwanda through a peacebuilding and repatriation program Mussamba worked with.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs48584rwa150322peaceml0406-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=UVy9H788)
Courageous Congolese uncover disturbing truths
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Justice and Equity
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A portrait of a man from the DR Congo. He is wearing a suit jacket and button down shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/katho_publicity_2.png.webp?itok=ZxoMTkYx)
Author interview: Bungishabaku Katho
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United States + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A book cover that says, "Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical essays in sociopolitical imagination. Bungishabaku Katho"](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/bookcoverphoto2.jpg.webp?itok=hIQ8KQeC)
When nations decay, the church cannot be a passive observer
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United States + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A book cover that says, "Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical essays in sociopolitical imagination. Bungishabaku Katho"](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/bookcoverphoto2.jpg.webp?itok=hIQ8KQeC)
Extracto del libro: Lectura de Jeremías en África
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United States + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Woman and two men sit together, smiling.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs108712_cod20200225_peace_ml2007-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=FEp-vDVO)
Women working for peace
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Publication
book
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![A young child stands outside her hut in the DR Congo. She is wearing a yellow shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC.png.webp?itok=mQ402zh5)
Hello from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Migration and Refugees
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Video story
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![A woman from the DR Congo is being interviewed. She has a white shirt with a red collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC_0.png.webp?itok=_BBRMx09)
A women's peace movement | DR Congo
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Peace
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Video story
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![A city landscape with mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/view_from_window2.jpg.webp?itok=EnQZ5Bd5)
The view from my window
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Health
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Lebanon + 6 more
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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
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Story
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![Dr. Mulanda Jimmy Juma is pictured with participants of the mediation process in Democratic Republic of the Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/Mulanda%20article.jpeg.webp?itok=jXvXYYBY)
How the UN worked with Congolese pastors, NGO leaders, politicians, and MCC to avert a massacre
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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