Meriam Yehya Ibrahim death sentence is not religious issue, says Sudan

When news broke last week of a pregnant Christian Sudanese mother being sentenced to death for apostasy, the World Evangelical Alliance released a statement saying that such a ruling was not only a "blatant violation" of international human rights laws and Sudan's own constitution, but also Islam and Sharia.

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim is eight months pregnant and behind bars with her 20-month-old son. The reason for her woes? She married a Christian man and considers herself to be a Christian, but her father, who walked out on the family when she was six, was a Muslim. In the eyes of the Sudanese authorities, that makes her a Muslim and her marriage to a Christian man void.

After refusing to recant her Christian faith, the death sentence remains in place but will be stayed until her baby is two years old. Keep reading

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