November 6, 2026
When Bethlehem University Held Secret Classes in Movie Theaters In the back of a movie theater, a Bethlehem University faculty member taught five students while a film played. Classes like this one met again and again between 1987 and 1990, through the first intifada. Bethlehem University was the first university to be closed, by a…
Oktober 26, 2026
Meeting with Student Ambassadors On October 26, a delegation from the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in North America visited Bethlehem University: His Excellency P. Thomas Pogge, Vice Governor General of Honor; Dame Anne Pogge; Dame Angeles Borrego, Financial Administrator for North America; and Father Dan Kampschneider, the delegation’s spiritual guide. They…
Oktober 13, 2026
Nursing Students Build a “Skills City” for 40 Children On Tuesday, October 13, twelve nursing students from Bethlehem University’s Tarek Juffali Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences arrived at Al-Amal Center and School in Al-Ubeidiya to build a city. The Skills City had about 40 residents, children between the ages of 4 and 18 from…
Oktober 9, 2026
Seek the Truth Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine and Chancellor of Bethlehem University, led the Mass of the Holy Spirit on his first official visit since Pope Leo XIV appointed him to both roles. “Seeking truth is what constitutes the very essence of the university,” he told students, urging them not…
Oktober 9, 2026
Bethlehem University’s Faculty on Education in Palestine A community breast-cancer awareness session was a classroom assignment for Bethlehem University midwifery students: a practice in outreach, communication, and clinical judgment. Four women who attended were referred for early detection. That outcome is one moment inside a much larger feature in This Week in Palestine, “When Education…
Oktober 9, 2026
Suhair Mohammad Ali, Bethlehem University Class of 2024 and Georgetown University graduate student, on why she crossed a checkpoint about ten times a week for four years, and what was waiting on the other side. I chose to cross the checkpoint for four years, around ten times a week. I had spent a year studying…