Friday, June 13, 2014

Apostasy punishment

Sudan is a majority-Muslim country in Africa where you can be killed for an offense against Islam.  That's the situation of Meriam Ibrahim.


"When she refused to renounce her Christian faith, the judges sentenced Meriam to death by hanging. Meriam has also been sentenced to 100 lashes for being married to a Christian man."

"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."

She has a 20-month-old son with her, and she just gave birth in prison to a baby girl.  Her husband is in England working to save her life.  He's not allowed to take care of his little son because Sudan considers the child Muslim.

If you are Christian, will you pray for Mariam and her family?

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