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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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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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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Germinating Conversations and the art of listening well
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Community support key to Ohio thrift shop's $1M donation to MCC
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Peace
Location
Ohio
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A barbed wire fence near a river](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/RS70804_IMG_4218-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=_yhWpOeA)
Virtual visit - War and Peace: MCC's peacebuilding work
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A group of Ukrainian adults and children stand together to take a photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs116331_microsoftteams-image_5.jpg.webp?itok=IICz1LAs)
MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A man squats and works in his garden](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img_20220211_162722.jpg.webp?itok=5FyoU5mi)
Staying home or choosing to roam
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Migration and Refugees, Food
Location
India
Date
Media Type
Story
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MCC calls for peace, nonviolence in the midst of war
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman and two children walk down a road.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/gettyimages-1238750770.jpg.webp?itok=F5TdFgwh)
MCC church partners in Ukraine supply essential local care
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Clothes section of a thrift shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/dscf1945cr.jpg.webp?itok=jkUOkkRL)
Community built hand in hand
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A Ukrainian man and woman stand together. He has his arm around her.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/picture_max_and_anya_2_002.jpg.webp?itok=7B_ojTr7)
Message from Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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Volunteers “like a bunch of angels”
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Disaster response
Location
British Columbia
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Three elder, Ukrainian women. The middle woman has a scarf on her head.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%286%29.png.webp?itok=hGi3cBXo)
A prayer for Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A young girl playing with a doll beside a dollhouse made of an MCC canned meat box](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS114430_DSC03126-2_lpr%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=N98wxKeD)
MCC responds to crisis in Ukraine
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Disaster response
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
Pagination
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