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A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, to hang for apostasy – the abandonment of her religious faith – after she married a Christian man.
According to the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), the woman is the daughter of a Muslim Sudanese father and an Orthodox Ethiopian mother. Meriam was raised in the Christian faith. But since the father is Muslim, Sudanese law considers her a Muslim too.
The judge asked her to give up her faith: “We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” she answered “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”
“The fact that a woman has been sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion is appalling and abhorrent,” Manar Idriss, Amnesty International’s Sudan researcher, said in a statement following the sentencing.
“Adultery and apostasy are acts which should not be considered crimes at all. It is flagrant breach of international human rights law,” he added.
In a brief statement on Tuesday, European diplomats underlined Sudan’s obligation under international law to defend and promote the freedom of religion.
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The greatest think we can do is to pray for Meriam, as many people, of every confession, are doing around the world.
We can let her story be read and known by the maximum number of people sharing this post and the news about her.
What great news Marian, Husband and the children has been pardoned and I think are off to America. The power of prayer really works and a little political pressure.
Continue to pray for her. I am sure her persecution is not over:
She has indeed been freed. Continue to pray for her. am sure her persecution is not over. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27979782
I take it back. Keep on praying. http://www.catholicworldreport.com/NewsBriefs/Default.aspx?rssGuid=doubts-raised-over-release-reports-of-christian-woman-in-sudan%2F
Thank God! She is to be freed!