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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
Story
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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"Put a little love in your yard"
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Peace
Location
North Carolina
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What does peace need to thrive?
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Peace
Location
Colombia
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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
Location
Rwanda
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Story
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'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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Media Type
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
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Men listening; men talking
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Peace
Location
Canada
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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
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Bangladesh
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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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