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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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![Dorcus Sibanda checks in guests at Skills Auction, a fundraising event for The Conflict Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/9ba63627-241d-4cf2-b48b-16af6a56b750.jpg.webp?itok=WT6eBfgo)
Our journey with Dorcus
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Justice and Equity
Location
Colorado
Date
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Story
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![Ingrid Laan, Aline Wielenga and Sjoerd Huese, and Erik Husslage (front), IVEP participants 1986-87 from the Netherlands together in Munster, Germany, in October 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/6994d6e0-7820-4a00-b78c-67cbe41be42b.jpg.webp?itok=Lw3n0GMg)
IVEP reunion: A journey across continents, cultures and decades
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Education
Location
Europe
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Man holding two books](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/Rod%20Friesen%20peaceful%20at%20heart%20small.JPG.webp?itok=TLwOb0w-)
Men listening; men talking
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A woman speaking to a group of people seated in a conference room](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/RS133282_20221213_112620_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=6RCD9UN_)
Learning to help migrants with trauma
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
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![group of people stand in front of house with new metal roof](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS121102_Encienda%2017%20Peg.jpg.webp?itok=ID3-oUDW)
Building a roof while breaking down walls
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Poverty Reduction
Location
Great Lakes + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Recipients* display their MCC comforters. MCC partner Association of Mennonite Brethren Churches of Ukraine (AMBCU) distributed MCC humanitarian assistance to socially and economically vulnerable peop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/viber_image_2023-10-11_16-47-03-002.jpg.webp?itok=OBsas85X)
Kindness in every twist of thread
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Conflict
Location
Ukraine
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A woman at her desk in an office](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-12/Janessa.jpg.webp?itok=aCru8k50)
Inaugural MCC-led course on abuse in the church provides roadmap to healthier churches
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Peace
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Paul Quiring (left) served as MCC representative in Palestine from 1976-1978. In this photo circa 1978, Quiring observes the distribution of olive tree seedlings to Palestinian farmers in the West Ban](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/West%20Bank%20circa%201978_olive%20seedlings002.JPG.webp?itok=CeiptH8b)
Gaza, catastrophe and 75 years of Mennonite witness in Palestine and Israel
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Conflict
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Relatives of disappeared people in Mexico hold hands, forming a heart, during the December 2023 national gathering of the Movement of Our Disappeared.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Coraz%C3%B3n%20MNDM%202023.jpeg.webp?itok=NfaKnhX_)
Why U.S. gun sales south of the border matter
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Migration and Refugees
Location
United States + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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Remembering the disappeared in Mexico
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Justice and Equity, Peace
Location
Mexico
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
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Media Type
Story
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Pagination
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