Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice

Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice An initiative of Bethlehem Bible College and host of Christ at the Checkpoint conference.

A ministry of Bethlehem Bible College, the BIPJ walks alongside the global church in pursuit of justice and peace — rooted in the Palestinian Christian community and committed to Christ-centered, Kingdom-oriented, biblically grounded faith.

16/09/2026

Artists. Academics. Filmmakers. People of all walks of life are paying a price for speaking about Palestine.

And Palestinians, who have endured this genocide while speaking its truth to the world, have been doubted, dismissed, and demonized for doing so for far too long.

The real scandal behind the trending topic at hand is that
‘Instead of going after those responsible, we go after those who expose it’.

‘Saying no to genocide should not require courage. It should be basic humanity.’

This is not the time for silence.

Peter Beinart will be joining us at Church at the Crossroads Atlanta this November to speak on Being Jewish After the De...
14/09/2026

Peter Beinart will be joining us at Church at the Crossroads Atlanta this November to speak on Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, exploring the themes of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and the genocide in Gaza

Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents, an MSNOW political commentator and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack. His fourth book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, which was published by Knopf in 2025, won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.

Join us November 5-7 in Atlanta — register today, link in first comment.

Church at the Crossroads is coming to Belfast! The city that, against all odds, found a path toward peace. We are thrill...
11/09/2026

Church at the Crossroads is coming to Belfast! The city that, against all odds, found a path toward peace. We are thrilled to kick off our global conversations with you.

Join Palestinian and international Christian leaders and peacemakers to wrestle with the questions that confront the church at this moment in history: how should Christians respond to the realities in the Holy Land?

Palestinian Christians have spent generations following Jesus amid violence and turmoil. Their witness offers deep biblical wisdom about peacemaking, hope, enemy-love, perseverance, and faithful discipleship that can strengthen the global church in a divided and uncertain world.

Church at the Crossroads seeks to help Christians rediscover their calling as peacemakers — in the Holy Land and wherever violence and suffering wounds people and threatens our witness to the Good News.

Let’s gather to fellowship, listen, and learn, considering what a biblical, Christ-centred witness requires of us in this moment.

Come be part of the conversation. Register — link in first comment.

Last chance to register at our early bird rate for Church at the Crossroads Atlanta!If you've been thinking about joinin...
11/09/2026

Last chance to register at our early bird rate for Church at the Crossroads Atlanta!

If you've been thinking about joining us this November 5-7 in Atlanta, now is the time. Our early bird discount ends this Sunday, September 13.

Register today — link in first comment.

09/09/2026

‘Even under the bombs, what an average Palestinian child or an average Palestinian father or mother thinks of is to make study accessible, study possible.’

And now, more than 20,000 of them have been slaughtered in Gaza, with thousands more wounded, displaced, and orphaned.

Francesca Albanese — UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories — talks about Israel’s unchilding of Palestinian children, a term coined by Palestinian scholar Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who aptly describes it as ‘the authorised eviction of children from childhood.’

‘Losing parents to jails or to bullets. Humiliation. Dispossession. Destroyed homes. Destroyed schools. This has been life for four generations of Palestinians.’

Watch the full conversation on the Munther Isaac Podcast on YouTube or listen on your podcast app.

Join us this November! Church at the Crossroads is crossing the ocean to meet with the global church.Together, we’ll con...
06/09/2026

Join us this November! Church at the Crossroads is crossing the ocean to meet with the global church.

Together, we’ll consider what a Christ-centered, biblical witness requires of us in this moment. We’ll wrestle with difficult questions and explore how to embody a Christlike pursuit of peace and justice while recovering the church’s prophetic voice.

Come be part of the conversations and fellowship.

Register today — link in first comment.

04/09/2026

Francesca Albanese joined Munther Isaac on his podcast to discuss her book ‘When the World Sleeps.’

In an impassioned moment, she had a message for Christians who have remained silent on what is happening in Gaza: ‘Your ignorance cannot be portrayed as neutrality. You are not neutral. You’re just ignorant.’

Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are denouncing what is happening in Gaza as a new Holocaust, and former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s own intelligence service, are using the words apartheid and genocide.

‘It is when the world sleeps that monsters are generated. When the world sleeps, it falls on us — we the people — to wake it up. Now more than ever the world needs an awakening.’

Watch the full conversation on The Munther Isaac Podcast on YouTube or listen on your podcast app.

28/08/2026

Come to Christ at the Checkpoint 2026 — Hope in Besieged Bethlehem.

Walk the streets of the old city. Sit at tables like this one. Let the food, the stories, and the people change you.
In the heart of old Bethlehem sits a restaurant called Afteem. It was founded by the Salameh family, who became refugees after being forced to leave Jaffa in 1948. Though they lost their home, the recipes of their family remained with them. Today, they share their amazing food with people from all over the world who come to sit, eat, and break bread.

This is what community looks like in Bethlehem. And this is what’s waiting for you. And if you’re a foodie, you’re going to love this.

Registration open — link in bio.

Rest in Peace, Sliman Mansour. You spoke with your brush what words could not.Born in Birzeit, Palestine, in 1947, mere ...
25/08/2026

Rest in Peace, Sliman Mansour. You spoke with your brush what words could not.

Born in Birzeit, Palestine, in 1947, mere months before the Nakba, he spent over five decades doing what Palestinian Christians know deeply: bearing witness to a people’s existence when the world works to erase it.

In his most iconic work, ‘Camel of Hardship,’ an elderly porter carries the full weight of Jerusalem on his back. It speaks of sumud.

‘My purpose behind my artworks is to create and strengthen the bond between Palestinians and their land and culture, and encourage pride in that connection. For foreigners, my aim is to fight the dehumanization of Palestinians. I don’t have a message of hate — all my messages are about love and humanity.’

May his memory be a blessing.

"Are my fellow Christians' ears so fragile that the truth cannot be transmitted?"Lydia El-Sayegh asked her church to pra...
21/08/2026

"Are my fellow Christians' ears so fragile that the truth cannot be transmitted?"

Lydia El-Sayegh asked her church to pray for her grandmother sheltering in St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, bombed for the third time by an Israeli airstrike. Her prayer request detailing the horrors facing her family in Gaza, went out edited.

"Instead, it was cut down to “reflect the immediate need for prayer” which the self-appointed editors executively decided was only a sentence lamenting that the water tank was somehow hit — no perpetrator named."

Read this honest and moving meditation on our Substack — link in bio.

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