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Overcoming obstacles
- Conflict
Palestine and Israel
Jul 2024
Story
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![A group of smiling young adults stand posed while wrapped in flags from various nations.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Group%20-%20flags_1.jpg)
A season of growing and learning
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
Story
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![An MCC staff member observes workers packing emergency food packages in Amman, Jordan.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/podcast%20thumbnail.jpg)
Behind-the-scenes with emergency relief / Bruce Guenther
Palestine and Israel + 5 more
Jul 2024
Podcast/audio
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![A portrait of two-year-old Basthian Raul Alborta Rodriguez makes a game of rolling a tire at Samuelito Daycare in Santa Cruz, Bolivia](/sites/default/files/2024-06/RS132619_2022_0113_07493600.jpg)
Education impact report - Summer 2024
- Education
Bolivia + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
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![Al-Najd Developmental Forum staff distribute emergency food that has just arrived in Gaza for distribution to families. The shipment arrived on March 19 and was distributed on March 23. *Names withheld for security reasons.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS135147_PSE20240323_gaza_dist_al_016.jpeg)
Relief impact report - Summer 2024
- Disaster response
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
summarize
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![Nyiranshuti Atanaziya speaks with MCC staff at Zambia's Meheba Refugee Settlement Camp.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/RS132829_Copy%20of%20IMG_2445_hpr.jpg)
Material resources impact report - Summer 2024
Zambia + 2 more
Jul 2024
Impact report
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![Blues band performs at the music festival for MCC.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/IMG_9025%20-%20LPT.JPG.webp?itok=CXBmD0s-)
"Put a little love in your yard"
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Peace
Location
North Carolina
Date
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What does peace need to thrive?
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Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
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Story
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Freeman Academy student wins MCC essay contest
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Peace
Location
United States + 1 more
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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![a group of participants in a vocational training session surround an engine](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/vocational%20training%201.JPG.webp?itok=pUhs8LVV)
Reflections on Christian Community Development in Rwanda
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Peace, Poverty Reduction
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Rwanda
Date
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Story
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![person packaging food for distribution in Myanmar](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS134102_signal-2023-12-18-074144_024.jpeg.webp?itok=ZCwi1ZZs)
'Being riskless is not always the will of God'
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Food, Peace
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Myanmar (Burma)
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Story
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![Three people walk down a road](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-04/RS82131_CVAN4223.jpg.webp?itok=E9oczrKa)
Peace is more than a wish with some strangers
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Peace
Location
Canada
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A smiling woman with glasses holds up a copper penny](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/20240327_223919.jpg.webp?itok=DzZeoefK)
A penny for your peace
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Story
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Gaza: Airdrops and sea routes are no alternative to aid delivery by land
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
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News
newspaper
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![Melanie Mafinga, 53 years old, trader, center, resolved a financial issue that Beatrice Kulenga Makasi (not pictured) had with her daughter. Mafinga and Patience Tomboka, right, are members of the Wom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/_MG_0973.jpg.webp?itok=Do6zFuoe)
Call the peacebuilder
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
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Men listening; men talking
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Cultural event dancers](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-29%20at%2011.04.07%20AM.png.webp?itok=f4p9mMpG)
Moving together for peace in Bangladesh
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Peace
Location
Bangladesh
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Media Type
Video story
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Sixteen leading humanitarian organisations call to stop arms transfers to Israel, Palestinian armed groups
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
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Media Type
News
newspaper
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