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1601, 2023

Eastern University Adopts BIPJ Courses

By |January 16th, 2023|Categories: News Highlight|

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice’s online courses continue to gain wide approval. Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, approved all three BIPJ’s Certificate Program courses to be added as electives to its MA in Theological and Cultural Anthropology. These courses include the semester-length Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1 and 2, offered in the Fall and Spring semesters, respectively, and the Summer Intensive, a residential [...]

2507, 2022

Inaugural Year of Peace Studies Program Concludes

By |July 25th, 2022|Categories: News Highlight|

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice (BIPJ) at Bethlehem Bible College has successfully completed its inaugural year of its Certificate Program in Peace and Justice!  More than seventy students participated in the Program’s course offerings from a wide range of countries including China, the Philippines, Liberia, South Africa, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, England, Wales, Canada and the US. Andrew Bush, the director of the BIPJ at BBC, says, [...]

1404, 2022

An Interview with Bishara Awad about His Autobiography Yet in the Dark Streets Shining

By |April 14th, 2022|Categories: News Highlight|

Andrew Bush, the director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice (BIPJ), with the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East (NEME) recently conducted a webinar to celebrate the launching of  Bishara Awad’s new autobiography, Yet in the Dark Streets Shining.  In this webinar, Andrew interviews Bishara about his life story.  Co-written with Mercy Aiken, this is a moving account of a Palestinian family trying to survive the [...]

2401, 2022

Making the ‘Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context’ special

By |January 24th, 2022|Categories: News Highlight|

On International Day of Education, meet Marcy Heinz, a Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice student, speaking briefly about her experience studying with us! “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When I stepped off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, [...]

712, 2021

By |December 7th, 2021|Categories: Upcoming Events|

Passionate about peacemaking? Want to be a part of the global movement in peace studies? Desire to learn more from dynamic Holy Land Christian peacemakers? Join us on the 24th of January in our second online course for audit or credit entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice 2. Read More

2910, 2021

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice’s First Semester is Underway!

By |October 29th, 2021|Categories: News Highlight|

Students from more than half a dozen countries are deeply engaged in the first fully online course of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice. The course is entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1.    The materials challenge the participants to consider what it means to be a peacemaker in our troubled world. Noted Palestinian lecturers are taking the discussion out of the ivory tower [...]

1709, 2021

The BIPJ launched its inaugural online course entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1

By |September 17th, 2021|Categories: News Highlight|

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice at Bethlehem Bible College launched its inaugural online course entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1. Andrew Bush, the director of the BIPJ, states: “We are excited that the course is fully enrolled with twenty-nine students from Liberia, the Netherlands, Scotland, England, Canada, the Philippines, and the United States. This fourteen-week course can be taken for credit or [...]

2708, 2021

Interview With Dr. Martin Accad

By |August 27th, 2021|Categories: News Highlight|

Global Peacemakers Speak: An Interview Series of the BIPJ Around the world, peacemakers are bringing transformative change in places of conflict and hardship. Often these visionary women and men do their work under the radar, with only those in their closest circles of associates appreciating their sacrificial work. Global Peacemakers Speak is our effort at the BIPJ to bring their voices and insights to a broader audience. Martin Accad, [...]

2202, 2021

Interview With Dr. Mubarak Awad

By |February 22nd, 2021|Categories: News Highlight|

The “Gandhi of Palestine” has returned to the place that needs him the most Dr. Mubarak Awad is a world-famous Palestinian nonviolent activist. He is also known as the “Gandhi of Palestine.” Dr. Awad is the founder of the Nonviolence International, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has worked with the likes of Yasser Arafat, the ex-president of Palestine, to advocate for nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution. Our [...]

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