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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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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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MCC calls for peace, nonviolence in the midst of war
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Undercurrents - Giving gifts/receiving gifts
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Presentation slide of two people shaking hands. The speakers are in a window in the upper right-hand corner.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/webinar_4.png.webp?itok=37lAYOCz)
Peace on both sides of the border: North and South Korea
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Webinar
computer
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![Woman sitting on a mat threading a needle.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/koshish.jpg.webp?itok=j0Bjol-I)
Our ministry toward a holistic recovery and healing
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A young Zambian man in a blue plaid shirt with glasses.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/webinar_6.png.webp?itok=boduyzpS)
Seed participants answer "What is peace?"
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Peace
Location
Zambia
Date
Media Type
Video story
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Myrrl Byler on why the call to peacemaking must not ignore China
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Zebron Mwale holds his badge to signify his Peace Club membership in April 2021. Mwale joined a Peace Club program while serving his sentence in a Zambian prison. He credits Peace Clubs with changing](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/peace%20club%20badge%20%283%29.jpg.webp?itok=aczweWrk)
Peace behind prison bars
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Peace
Location
Zambia
Date
Media Type
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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![Woman and two men sit together, smiling.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs108712_cod20200225_peace_ml2007-lpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=FEp-vDVO)
Women working for peace
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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![Bill Siemens volunteers two days a week at the MCC Saskatchewan Centre in Saskatoon, cutting up old jeans and weaving the strips of fabric into small rugs that are sold to support MCC programs. The 70](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/SK2011_05mrc_cb0159.JPG.webp?itok=yCkV3lAE)
Peace: A thread woven through MCC’s ministry
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Peace, Food
+3 more
Location
Syria + 3 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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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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![A woman from the DR Congo is being interviewed. She has a white shirt with a red collar.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC_0.png.webp?itok=_BBRMx09)
A women's peace movement | DR Congo
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Peace
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Media Type
Video story
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