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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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En souvenir des disparus au Mexique
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Justice and Equity, Peace
Location
Mexico
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A woman smiling standing with her hand resting on a horse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS130805_Margaryta%27s%20photo-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=ewVMslPK)
Pleins feux sur Margaryta
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Health
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![MCC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/photo_placeholder.png.webp?itok=Rrsi_2DZ)
MCC statement on Gaza
Location
United States + 2 more
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Man sprays off stainless steel tubs while other people in hair nets and aprons work in background](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/RS61798_USA2015_cannery_ml0644.jpg.webp?itok=UJVDk4Tj)
Together, we can!
Location
Canada
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Media Type
Story
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![A crowd searches the crater of a destroyed building at night](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/GettyImages-1734339064.jpg.webp?itok=XT_XtJVS)
"We feel so helpless..."
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Director of Israeli MCC partner Zochrot](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-18%20at%209.14.42%20AM.png.webp?itok=xIskPM8W)
Message from an MCC partner in Israel
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Video story
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Love is a house
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Saskatchewan + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Children at Lindale Mennonite Church present their finished comforters.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/Children%20comforter_Lindale_1.jpg.webp?itok=EiNT7oAZ)
Children knot warmth and hope
Location
East Coast
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Media Type
Story
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![MCC staff, along with their families, celebrated Christmas 2017 at MCC's office in Kolkata, India. Children pictured from left, Brishti Ghosh, Rachel Das, Reyana Kader and Angelina Hazra. (MCC photo/C](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/CVAN5237.jpg.webp?itok=X10bt8pZ)
The absurdity of Christmas
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Humanitarian organizations welcome Canada's vote in favour of a ceasefire
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Portrait of MCC executive secretary John A. Lapp in 1991.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/1991IND_JohnLapp_hz_05.jpg.webp?itok=E4xCEadS)
Remembering John A. Lapp
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Christmas under the rubble
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Justice and Equity
Location
Palestine and Israel + 2 more
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Media Type
Story
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