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These featured stories highlight partners and communities that inspire, inform and drive meaningful change across the globe.
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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
Podcast/audio
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
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![Three men are engaged in a conversation](/sites/default/files/2024-06/BillJanzen2_1.jpg)
Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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What does peace need to thrive?
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Peace
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Colombia
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Threads - "Now you have not just friends, you have family here."
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Manitoba + 1 more
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Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A green, lush, jungle](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS130898_IMG_0261_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=Vhs3msG4)
Healing land and communities
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Climate Change
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Colombia
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![A mural image of a yellow butterfly painted on a wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/IMG_6296.JPG.webp?itok=MxIxyFZX)
Peace in the time of yellow butterflies
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Children playing by a river](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-10/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%2838%29.png.webp?itok=aiuqM85i)
Peace is more than a wish at the creek
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Peace
Location
Colombia
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group in colourful pants sit on a brick wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/Pants%20day%204.jpg.webp?itok=bRd3SHFx)
A Fresh Vision
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Peace
Location
Colombia
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A man holding a Colombian flag with an added white stripe](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs83378img6609-lpr1_1_0.jpg.webp?itok=27FmlcA9)
La paix est plus qu’un vœu
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Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![man holds a Colombian flag with an added white stripe to represent peace.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs83378img6609-lpr1.jpg.webp?itok=FPzVa9-q)
Peace is more than a wish with words, not weapons
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Justice and Equity
Location
Colombia
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman smiling for a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/sembrandopaz.jpg.webp?itok=CGp8Q_9L)
Empowering women in Colombia
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Food, Peace
Location
Colombia
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Story
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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
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Two people stand at podiums on stage](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/809ab625-17b7-4557-b941-fbd48fe7935b.jpg.webp?itok=1TdDqL9R)
Unexpected placement equips for future service
Location
Colombia
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Story
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![Children playing soccer/football in a school yard in Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs118491_photo_7_1.jpg.webp?itok=YTUv3gi7)
Making goals, building peace
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Peace
Location
Colombia
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