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![Three men are engaged in a conversation](/sites/default/files/2024-06/BillJanzen2_1.jpg)
Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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
headphones
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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
menu_book
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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
menu_book
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![Volunteers can meat in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs111948_us2021111_canning_hh_1.jpg.webp?itok=ZwdybbGz)
Canning meat for the world
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Food
Location
Syria + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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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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![Two young women wearing hair nets in a warehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/3.jpg.webp?itok=l11NrDxK)
Growing a passion for social justice through Summer Service
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A father and son sit together on a bunch. The son is holding a carved pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/122057259_1332214807110303_2389105748814976047_n_-_copy.jpg.webp?itok=5bUsye1Z)
Community Connections Program
Location
British Columbia
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Two people seated at a table sharing dinner](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/myrrl_and_wang_xiuling.jpg.webp?itok=WLBTYJoi)
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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![A man wearing a suit and bishop's collar smiles and looks to the side](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/bishop_zac.jpg.webp?itok=ZRbO3IBS)
The Lord's Prayer as political engagement
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Apartment buildings destroyed from Beruit explosion.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs110050_img_9211.jpg.webp?itok=WXY5E7PX)
Beirut explosion: one year later
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Disaster response
Location
Lebanon
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A grey and yellow quilt](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/f564ad6a-6f0b-4ea9-b547-991433d6b900_0.jpg.webp?itok=fapCYk_Q)
Breaking stereotypes one quilt at a time
Location
Ohio
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Undercurrents logo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Undercurrents.jpg.webp?itok=IeXAiXIx)
Undercurrents - Merle's Story
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![Indigenous Neighbours icon](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Indigenous_Neighbours_Icon_Teal_Circle-50x50.png)
Indigenous Neighbors
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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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
menu_book
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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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![A yellow book cover that reads, "What is God's Kingdom and what does citizenship look like. Cesar Garcia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/godskingdom1.jpg.webp?itok=c5u-h4Mb)
Author Q&A with César García
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United States + 1 more
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Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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