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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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![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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![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
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![A young doctor sits at a table and fills out a form. A patient sits across the table from her](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs109534_ela_castro_yamener_medical_appointment2-scr.jpg.webp?itok=vCqO3emJ)
Called to care, equipped to serve
Location
Guatemala
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
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Media Type
Publication
book
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![A young child stands outside her hut in the DR Congo. She is wearing a yellow shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/DRC.png.webp?itok=mQ402zh5)
Hello from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
Media Type
Video story
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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
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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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Police reform and racial justice by Mackenzie Mast (Excerpts)
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A family of four kneal together in the sand at the beach. The ocean is behind them.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/picture1_0%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=qWvTpExz)
So romantic…
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Florida
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Shadi Alkhannous runs the take-out and delivery counter at the Alnoor Halal Food Market in St. Catherines, Ont., serving meals like shish tawook, chicken shawarma and beef kabab. He and his family hav](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Shadi%20Alkhannous%2C%20Ontario.png.webp?itok=Xw3waqTm)
Resettled refugees support from the front lines during COVID-19
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Migration and Refugees
Location
Ontario + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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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
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A view from above of a large group of adults made up of many different ethnicities. A bald man with a white beard wearing a black top stands in the middle.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/hauerwas_kyoto_2018_1.jpg.webp?itok=VQWdfYqy)
Interview with Stanley Hauerwas:
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A woman shopping in a thrift store](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/012021_reuzit_on_state_19.jpg.webp?itok=qoTmtmSZ)
MCC Thrift shops
Location
East Coast + 2 more
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Story
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![Two men sit near the railing of a boat. They are talking to each other.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/saucedo_and_kinney_3_mg.jpg.webp?itok=sb4t7rfc)
Strengthening racial equity
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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