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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
menu_book
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
menu_book
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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
menu_book
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Empowering women in Colombia
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Food, Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Story
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Beyond Incarceration webinar series: Practice
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Justice and Equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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Relief, Development and Podcast: A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell
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Justice and Equity, Climate Change
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
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Threads - Mar 2023 - What is Advocacy?
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Peace
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Depuis Alep, en Syrie :
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Disaster response
Location
Syria
Date
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![Mana speaking](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/manaspeaking_0.jpg.webp?itok=rT6lfp8f)
How one Christian leader works for hope in a hopeless time
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Justice and Equity
Location
Myanmar (Burma)
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman with short dreads speaks into the camera during a video call](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/Webinar1_1.png.webp?itok=5VgRUssa)
Beyond Incarceration webinar series: Create
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Justice and Equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![A group of three people chatting together in the Global Center](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/kvp5254.jpg.webp?itok=qnl3xjRc)
Something Old, Something New, & Something Borrowed
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Education, Peace
Location
California
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Striving for reunion
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Migration and Refugees
Location
British Columbia
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Three Colombia women sit and sew a comforter](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/january_2015_016%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=B4ZcZIxY)
Peace is more than a wish when women talk
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Peace
Location
Colombia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![pair of beaded earrings](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/MCC%20-44.jpeg.webp?itok=4pFdCnFE)
Relief, Development and Podcast: MCC responds to earthquakes in Syria / Petra Antoun
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Disaster response, Earthquake
Location
Syria
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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Threads - Feb 2023 - Welcoming the stranger
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
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