Sudanese Woman Sentenced To Death Meets The Pope
- 10 years ago
Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce Christianity, arrived safely in Rome and met Pope Francis.
Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce Christianity, arrived safely in Rome and met Pope Francis.
The pontiff blessed her and thanked her for her commitment to the faith. The two talked in private for around a half an hour.
It was a surprise to many that the woman showed up in Italy, as the country was never announced as being part of the plan to get her and her family out of Sudan.
For the last month she’s been a protected guest of the American Embassy in Khartoum.
Her ordeal with the Sudanese government had been going on for nearly a year at the time of her departure.
Ibrahim was originally arrested and sentenced to death for apostasy.
She’d married an American man and converted to Christianity.
Sudanese courts gave her the option of reestablishing her Muslim faith or dying.
The woman refused to change her religion as she had grown up in a Christian Orthodox family and had never practiced Islam.
She and her family will be flown from Italy to the United States in the coming days.
Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce Christianity, arrived safely in Rome and met Pope Francis.
The pontiff blessed her and thanked her for her commitment to the faith. The two talked in private for around a half an hour.
It was a surprise to many that the woman showed up in Italy, as the country was never announced as being part of the plan to get her and her family out of Sudan.
For the last month she’s been a protected guest of the American Embassy in Khartoum.
Her ordeal with the Sudanese government had been going on for nearly a year at the time of her departure.
Ibrahim was originally arrested and sentenced to death for apostasy.
She’d married an American man and converted to Christianity.
Sudanese courts gave her the option of reestablishing her Muslim faith or dying.
The woman refused to change her religion as she had grown up in a Christian Orthodox family and had never practiced Islam.
She and her family will be flown from Italy to the United States in the coming days.