Reuters
May 16, 2014

A Sudanese court has sentenced a 27-year-old woman to death for converting to Christianity, judicial sources said.

Nukta church near the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.  Credit: Maureen Didde / Flickr
Nukta church near the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Credit: Maureen Didde / Flickr

Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been ordered to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam. She had also been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man.

Judge Abbas al Khalifa asked Ibrahim whether she would return to Islam. After she said “I am a Christian,” the death sentence was handed down, the judicial sources said.

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