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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
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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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![A smiling woman with glasses and short silver hair, wearing a blue collared button up shirt, sits on a couch and looks to her left into the camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs110315_ann_graber-hershberger_001.jpg.webp?itok=pJmpxKjR)
Ann Graber Hershberger on not forgetting our first language
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A yellow book cover that reads, "What is God's Kingdom and what does citizenship look like. Cesar Garcia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/godskingdom1.jpg.webp?itok=c5u-h4Mb)
Author Q&A with César García
Location
United States + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A young doctor sits at a table and fills out a form. A patient sits across the table from her](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs109534_ela_castro_yamener_medical_appointment2-scr.jpg.webp?itok=vCqO3emJ)
Called to care, equipped to serve
Location
Guatemala
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![In 2010, Mampuján community leader Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández displays a partially completed 10-year historic quilt project in Colombia celebrating the Mampuján community's past before they were disp](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COL10_01_0034.JPG.webp?itok=M4wg4W_t)
A journey of bold listening
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Peace, Justice and Equity
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Police reform and racial justice by Mackenzie Mast (Excerpts)
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A view from above of a large group of adults made up of many different ethnicities. A bald man with a white beard wearing a black top stands in the middle.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/hauerwas_kyoto_2018_1.jpg.webp?itok=VQWdfYqy)
Interview with Stanley Hauerwas:
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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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
Location
Lebanon + 6 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of people hold hands sitting down in a circle](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/1449672380-web.jpg.webp?itok=X_JKXUsp)
A renewed commitment to peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A man wearing a black suit and blue tie sits in front of two flags.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/img-20200612-wa0037_0.jpg.webp?itok=16T8Ir7P)
Ziad El Sayegh on from symptoms to root causes
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of children stand around a colorful parachute on the ground. They are raising their hands in the air.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/hondurashurricanechildren.jpg.webp?itok=FSmOOKNr)
The hope of advocacy
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A group of young adults stand on pavement in a circle. Many of them are holding umbrellas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/prayerwalk2_0.jpg.webp?itok=w-m9TY8m)
Choosing Christ’s way of reconciliation
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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10 steps to deeper engagement in political advocacy
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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