Bible college to host Christ at the Checkpoint conference

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Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will open the first international conference on the theology of peace, justice and reconciliation in a Palestinain context, hosted by the Bethlehem Bible College and Holly Land Trust, organizers said.

The conference, titled Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Peace and Justice, is set to run 12-17 March, and "aims to equip the global church to understand Scripture as it relates to the Palestinian context," a news brief about the conference said.

.... theologians and Christian leaders from around the world were registered to participate....

Keynote speakers from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Lebanon, and Palestine, affiliated with Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, and Dutch Reform congregations, pastors, scholars and human rights lawyers will address conference participants.

The conference will also present the film With God on Our Side, from director and producer Porter Speakman Jr. The film explores the beliefs behind Christian Zionism, and draws out the possible implications of the thought system. "[O]nce people understood the political and historical consequences Christian Zionism has on people in the Middle East, they began to question some of the things they have always just taken for granted," Speakman wrote of the project.   Full story