Persecuted for her faith, Christian, Meriam Ibrahim Arrives in USA

Tags

Christian persecution, Meriam Ibrahim, Sudan, USA

 

Sixty days ago, Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian who would not give up her faith was in a Sudanese prison sentenced to 100 lashes and death for apostasy.  Imprisoned with Ibrahim was her son Dani and newborn baby girl, Maya.

No doubt, it has been a long ten months for the family but this morning Ibrahim and family are free and beginning their new life in the United States after arriving last evening to a New Hampshire airport.

Friends, a nun and members of the Sudanese New Hampshire community waited to welcome the Ibrahim family home in the cargo bay area.

DailyMail.co.uk

Meriam Ibrahim smiled and hugged her supporters as she landed in Manchester, New Hampshire and told a friend: ‘Don’t cry, I’m here now’.

Friend Maria Ajang said: ‘She was so happy. She said: ‘I’m so happy to see you guys here’.

‘I was crying and she told me don’t cry, I’m here’.

Her husband Daniel Wani sobbed uncontrollably and said: ‘It’s good to be home.

‘There’s a sense of relief.

‘I want to thank everyone who helped get us home’….

Read full article

For the Ibrahim family, may the road ahead be smooth and forever blessed.

 

LINK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712767/Home-Meriam-Woman-jailed-Sudan-Christian-arrives-United-States-husband-baby-signaling-end-10-month-nightmare.html

Imprisoned Christian Mother, Meriam Ibrahim, Freed, Death Sentence Canceled after International Outcry.

Tags

islamic-terrorism, Meriam Ibrahim, Sudan

Free! #MeriamIbrahim is home with her husband after appeal court overturned all charges. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/6zrD7fxiIc

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) June 23, 2014

 

Breaking now is news that Meriam Ibrahim, Sudanese woman arrested and convicted of apostasy, as ordered by a Sudanese appeal court, has been freed and her death sentence canceled this afternoon.

Taking into account that Ibrahim’s children were imprisoned with her, they too are now free.

Ibrahim, the wife of a Catholic American and mother of two was sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging after refusing to convert from Christianity to Islam. The sentence provoked an international outrage.

DailyMail.co.uk

A 27-year-old woman sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity in Sudan has been freed from prison and sent to a safe house for her own protection.

The case of Meriam Ibrahim, who is married to a Christian American, triggered an international outcry. She gave birth to a baby daughter while in prison.

‘The appeal court ordered the release of Mariam Yahya and the cancellation of the (previous) court ruling,’ Sudan’s SUNA news agency said. The couple’s 20-month-old son was also held in prison with Ms Ibrahim and her newborn daughter.

MailOnline has led the way in highlighting the plight of Ms Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death on May 15. After international pressure a government official said on May 31 that Sudanese officials were working to release her.

She was only finally freed this afternoon.

Ms Ibrahim’s lawyer Mohaned Mostafa said after her release she had been sent ‘to an unknown house to stay at for her protection and security.’

‘Her family had been threatened before and we are worried that someone might try to harm her,’ he said….

Continue Reading

Many here in the USA, cried out for Ibrahim’s freedom. The next step is to get the Ibrahim family safe harbor to the United States and granted immediate legal status.

ACLJ

…In response to her death sentence, the ACLJ launched an international effort to free Meriam and her children. Our petition for her release garnered over 380,000 signatures, and we delivered a letter directly to the Sudanese embassy demanding that Sudan comply with its own law and with international law and release Meriam.

We are thankful for her release, but our work is not done. It’s time to bring Meriam and her American children home to America. It’s time to grant her asylum so that she can worship and raise her children without fear, here in the land of liberty.

Join us as we call on the Obama Administration to grant Meriam and her American children safe passage and immediate legal status.

Sign our petition to bring Meriam and her American children home….

 

Please share and let’s get this ball rolling.

 

LINKS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2665929/BREAKING-NEWS-Sudanese-mother-sentenced-death-converting-Christianity-freed-international-outcry.html
http://aclj.org/radical-islam/huge-victory-for-religious-liberty-meriam-ibrahim-freed

 

Ted Cruz Speaks Out at Meriam Ibrahim Protest Rally – 06122014 (video)

Tags

Islam, Meriam Ibrahim, Senator Ted Cruz, Shariah law, Sudan, war on Christians, washington-dc

WND

WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today told a rally in Washington, D.C., it is time for the U.S. to do something about the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman condemned to death for leaving Islam, even though she was raised a Christian.

Cruz told more than a hundred assembled listeners outside the White House, “Let us unite people across the world to release Meriam.”

Ibrahim, whose husband is an American citizen, is in a prison in Khartoum with her toddler son and newborn daughter, who was born behind bars….

Read full article

 

LINK:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/ted-cruz-time-to-act-in-sudan/?cat_orig=us

Meriam Ibrahim Will be Flogged in Days if Appeal is Thrown Out

Tags

Islam, Meriam Ibrahim, Shariah law, Sudan, War against Christians

Meriam Ibrahim and baby

Life News

Meriam Ibrahim is not sentenced to die for her Christian faith for two years, until such a time as her newborn baby girl Maya is weaned, but she could be flogged within days if her appeal of her death sentence is thrown out. LifeNews recently covered the terrible nature of the flogging she will have to endure and how it will literally take her skin off of her body.

Meriam’s case has drawn international outrage. Meriam was jailed in September despite the fact she was pregnant, because she married a Christian – when authorities claim she is Muslim. Sudanese leaders suggested she may be freed weeks ago as international outrage grew – but there is still no sign of her release. She was forced to give birth to daughter, Maya, in prison, shackled to bed.

Now, human rights advocates have released a video of another woman flogged in public to highlight her case. In the video, dated 2010, the woman begs for mercy as police laugh and joke.

SIGN THE PETITION! Save Meriam Ibrahim, Don’t Hang her to Death for Her Faith

The London Daily Mail has more on this video and the latest pleas to spare Meriam her life.

Cowering and screaming for mercy as she is lashed dozens of times, this is the fate that awaits mother-of-two Meriam Ibrahim who has been sentenced to death in Sudan for marrying a Christian.

Meriam could be given 100 lashes within days just like this woman as part of her barbaric punishment that has caused outrage worldwide, MailOnline can reveal.

Campaigners today said it could leave Meriam scarred, humiliated and with deep psychological wounds that may never heal.

The Sudanese government appeared to be on the verge of agreeing to releasing Meriam last week under the growing international pressure – but did a dramatic U-turn.

is now waiting for the outcome of her appeal, which will be within the next week or two.International human rights organisation REDRESS told MailOnline that pressure needed to be maintained on Sudan to make sure that Meriam is freed.Lutz Oette, of REDRESS, said: ‘This may well be the fate that awaits Meriam unless her appeal is successful. The video shows how flogging violates the dignity of its victims who are more often than not women.Click here to sign up for daily pro-life news alerts from LifeNews.com

‘REDRESS calls for an end to this practice, which is cruel, inhuman and degrading.’

The footage of the flogging was originally filmed in December 2010 and shows the woman wearing a full hijab in a public area surrounded by policemen in blue uniforms as a crowd of men look on.

She is clearly distressed and is seen holding up her hands as she is told: ‘We’ll jail you for two years if you don’t bend down and sit on the ground’.

Click here to view original web page at www.lifenews.com

 

Warning: GRAPHIC, BRUTAL

SIGN THE PETITION! Save Meriam Ibrahim, Don’t Hang her to Death for Her Faith

LINK:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/11/meriam-ibrahim-will-be-flogged-in-days-if-appeals-is-thrown-out/

Sudan Backtracks on Decision to Free Meriam Ibrahim

Tags

Meriam Ibrahim, sharia, Sudan, War against Christians

Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani and their son

Telegraph.co.uk

Sudan’s foreign ministry on Sunday repudiated a pledge the government would order the release of Meriam Ibrahim, the mother sentenced to death for apostasy, warning only the country’s courts could order her freedom.

Western nations including Britain have expressed outrage that Ms Ibrahim, who gave birth to her daughter Maya in prison last week, had been convicted of changing her faith from Islam to Christianity.

Sudanese officials suggested late on Saturday that the 27-year-old was to be released and her death sentence is to be annulled.

But Abu Bakr al-Sideeg, spokesman for the foreign ministry in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, said on Sunday that only the courts had such powers and foreign ministry officials would have no power over Ms Ibrahim’s case.

‘[I am] not aware that any release is imminent”’ he added.…

Continue Reading

LINK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10868399/Sudan-backtracks-on-pledge-to-free-woman-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy.html

Meriam Ibrahim, Christian Sudanese Mother Sentenced to Death for Faith, Expected to Be Freed

Tags

Christianity, Islam, Meriam Ibrahim, Sharia Law, Sudan

Daniel Wani with his wife Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27 who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. (Photo: Facebook/Gabriel Wani)

Christian Post

A defiant Christian woman in Sudan who was sentenced to death while pregnant for refusing to renounce her faith and converting to Islam, is expected to be released within days.

The BBC reported Saturday that Sudanese officials announced that Meriam Ibrahim, 27, who gave birth to a baby girl in custody this week, is to be freed.

Abdullah Alzareg, an under-secretary at the Foreign Ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and vowed to protect the young mother….

Meriam’s death sentence was expected to be carried out two years after the birth of her baby along with 100 lashes for marrying Christian U.S. citizen Daniel Wani and practicing Christianity.

‘If they want to execute me then they should go ahead and do it because I’m not going to change my faith,’” she said in an earlier report.

‘I refuse to change. I am not giving up Christianity just so that I can live. I know I could stay alive by becoming a Muslim and I would be able to look after our family, but I need to be true to myself,’ she added….

Read full article

 

LINK:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/meriam-ibrahim-christian-sudanese-mother-sentenced-to-death-for-faith-to-be-freed-120692/