It's hard to believe that things like this still happen, now hear this....Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag has been
sentenced to death by hanging by a Sudanese court for apostasy, (abandonment of religion) after marrying a Christian man
The Pregnant Mariam is a 27 year old
Sudanese woman, who was raised by her mother orthodox Christian and Muslim father
was earlier sentenced to death by
hanging on Sunday May 11th but was given till yesterday May 15th to renounce
Christainity and convert back to Islam before the verdict would be enforced.
However during a court appearance today, Mariam maintained her statuesque as a
Christian
Read statement below....
"We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not
returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death." Judge Abbas
Mohammed Al-Khalifa told the woman in court today, AFP reports
“I am a Christian and I never committed
apostasy,” she said in court.
Defending the judgement
of the Sudanese judge, Ahmed Bilal Osman, Sudan's
information Minister, said such judgement is not only delivered in Sudan but
also in other Islamic countries
"It's not only Sudan. In Saudi Arabia, in all the
Muslim countries, it is not allowed at all for a Muslim to change his/her
religion." he told AFP
According to reports, the death sentence will be carried out
after Mariam gives birth
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