{"id":44102,"date":"2014-05-15T22:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T22:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_sudan_judge_sentences_christian_woman_to_death_for_apostasy\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T22:28:16","slug":"afp_sudan_judge_sentences_christian_woman_to_death_for_apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44102","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Sudan judge sentences Christian woman to death for apostasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, in a ruling which activists described as &#8220;abhorrent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Born to a Muslim father, the woman was convicted under the Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.<\/p>\n<p>Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 27, is married to a Christian and eight months pregnant, human rights activists say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged,&#8221; Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told the woman, addressing her by her father&#8217;s Muslim name, Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>Khalifa also sentenced Ishag to 100 lashes for &#8220;adultery&#8221;. Under Sudan&#8217;s interpretation of sharia, a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man and any such relationship is regarded as adulterous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/sudan-judge-sentences-christian-woman-death-apostasy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, in a ruling which activists described as &#8220;abhorrent&#8221;. Born to a Muslim father, the woman was convicted under the Islamic sharia law that has been in force<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44102\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,175,168,114,98,177,108,346,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}