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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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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
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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![Front to back, Laura Pauls-Thomas, Curtis Book, Jennifer Lancaster, Megan Hoffman and Matt Hoffman are participants in a 52-mile bike ride in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County on July 30, 2022.
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Bicycling is climate action for peace
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Climate Change, Peace
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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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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![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
Date
Media Type
Story
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Message from an MCC partner in Israel
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![MCC staff, along with their families, celebrated Christmas 2017 at MCC's office in Kolkata, India. Children pictured from left, Brishti Ghosh, Rachel Das, Reyana Kader and Angelina Hazra. (MCC photo/C](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/CVAN5237.jpg.webp?itok=X10bt8pZ)
The absurdity of Christmas
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Humanitarian organizations welcome Canada's vote in favour of a ceasefire
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Comforters, Corrections and Compassion
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Peace
Location
Zambia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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Faith-based peace in an age of tumult
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Peace
Location
Canada + 4 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Message from Palestinian Christians
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Video story
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Peace in the time of yellow butterflies
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Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Daisy Toews, Cadence Miller, Keilana Miller, Rod Miller and Melanie Miller visit Niagara Falls](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/familypicture.png.webp?itok=FQIzI_E2)
A journey of mutual enrichment and community support
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Peace
Location
Ohio
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Incarcerated men gather in semi circle sitting at tables.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS112500_Jason%20at%20Workshop.jpeg.webp?itok=eS5fhzGY)
Witnessing the seeds of peace blossom
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Peace
Location
Zambia + 2 more
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Media Type
Story
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