Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel (NJP/I) is a local community group whose aim is to educate and inform Northfield and the surrounding area about the ongoing occupation of Palestine and to advocate peace and justice for all people who live in Palestine and Israel.
The Realities of Living as a Christian in the Holy Land
with Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos
Thursday, October 8, 2026
7:00pm
First UCC — 300 Union St — Northfield
Sponsored by the Peace and Justice for Palestine Israel Team of the First UCC
Endorsed by Northfielders for Justice in Palestine, Israel and the MICAH team at the Northfield United Methodist Church
Free and Open to the Public
Mother Agapia will discuss Christianity in Palestine, its history and the challenges of living in the Holy Land under a brutal occupation as a Palestinian.
Her voice carries the weight of lived experience: the intimate truths that never make headlines – and the moral clarity that only emerges from proximity. She reminds us that the Palestinian people’s struggle is cultural, spiritual and profoundly human.
Mother Agapia came to national attention after her interview with Tucker Carlson in August of 2025.
Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos is an Orthodox nun who joined the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in 1996. In September 1998 she was appointed administrator of the Convent’s Orthodox Girls School of Bethany located just over the Mount of Olives in the Palestinian town of Al-Azarya. She served at the School until August 2005, a time which coincided with the Second Intifada. During this time she became intimately connected with the lives and struggles of the local Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim..
She maintains her ties to the Holy Land both by organizing twice yearly pilgrimages, and by inviting young Palestinian Christians to the Convent each summer to take part in social, cultural, and religious activities.
Mother Agapia is the lead at Saint Nicholas Convent of Myra in Owego, NY.
A Boycott Planning Guide for groups or individuals considering the boycott of companies complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.
This guide was created by the U.S. Lutheran Palestine Israel Justice Network (US-LPJIN).
Boycotting was identified as the tactic currently needed in the struggle for justice for Palestine.
Find Boycott Planning Guide here.
US Lutheran Palestine Israel Justice Network website here.
Sign the petition here.
Photos from “Chalking the Names”
Photos from “Chalking the Names” on Bridge Square on Wednesday, July 30th 2025Names of the children killed in Gaza are printed on the concrete with chalk. This event is reocurring every Wednesday (unless raining) from 7-8 am, Bridge Square, Northfield MNAll are welcome to participate, if your knees allow. Names and chalk provided. You are also welcome to stop by on Wednesdays after 8 am and see the completed work of the day and read the names. For more information contact palestineinnorthfield@gmail.
Photo credit: Tim Freeland
Photo credit: Tim Freeland
Photo credit: Tim Freeland
Photo credit: Tim Freeland
The Nakba is the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land, and the destruction of Palestinian society during the creation of the State of Israel – a destruction that continues today – the ongoing Nakba.
We cannot hope to understand the present turmoil in the Holy Land – let alone achieve a just peace for all those who live there -without knowing where and how this world-shaking conflict began: with the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people from their homeland.
Free Online Palestine Focused Films
Northfielders for Justice in Palestine Israel (NJP/I) recommends the following two online sources of films related to the history, culture, and situation of the Palestinian people.
Monthly free films can be watched on your own time, after you have registered, then you may log on for a discussion of the film on the third Sunday of the month 2 pm CT.
Click here for link to Voices from the Holy Land
Weekly (Sat 11 am CT) films are offered at this site. By joining the email list you will receive notices of the up-coming films each week where you can register to view the free films online. The films are followed by discussion.
Click here for link to Palestine Museum
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