🕊️ Bearing Witness: Palestinian Christian Voices
National Speaking Tour — July & August 2026
Proudly Sponsored & Funded by: The National Council of Churches Australia (NCCA)
Presented by: Palestinian Christians in Australia in partnership with Christian institutions and Churches across Australia.
About the Tour:
How can Christians support a just peace in the Holy Land?
This national tour invites communities across Australia into a profound, deeply necessary conversation. Through a unique lens of academic scholarship and lived experience, our guest speakers guide us through the complex realities on the ground, offering a powerful perspective on true solidarity, justice, and faith-led peacebuilding.
Dr. Yousef Khoury
Dr. Khoury is a Christian Palestinian theologian raised in Gaza, where his family still remains. He brings a vital, lived perspective to the intersection of faith, justice, and peacebuilding. Dr. Khoury currently serves as the Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Bethlehem Bible College, a Steering Committee Member for Christ at the Checkpoint, and a Board Member of Kairos Palestine.
Dr. Lamma Mansour
Dr. Mansour is a Christian Palestinian writer, speaker and sociologist from Nazareth. Her work reflects on what it means to follow Christ in contexts marked by violence, how hope, beauty and faith take form amid struggle. Her research explores the political, spatial, emotional and gendered dimensions of Palestinian life in Israel. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.