{"id":45280,"date":"2014-07-24T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_mariam_ibrahim_sudanese_christian_who_refused_to_renounce_faith_escape\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:44:59","slug":"time_mariam_ibrahim_sudanese_christian_who_refused_to_renounce_faith_escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45280","title":{"rendered":"(Time) Mariam Ibrahim, Sudanese Christian Who Refused to Renounce Faith, Escapes Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mariam Yahya Ibrahim and her family landed in Italy en route to a new life in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in Sudan who faced the death sentence for refusing to renounce Christianity safely landed in Italy en route to the U.S. on Thursday after the international community intervened to secure her safe exit, NBC News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was imprisoned for apostasy in February under Sudan\u2019s strict Islamic law, after converting from Islam to marry her Christian husband, a U.S. citizen. Born to a Muslim father but raised Orthodox Christian, she refused to convert back under threat of death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3028454\/mariam-yahya-ibrahim-sudan-apostate-christian\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Per Catholic News Service&#8211;#PopeFrancis spent 30mins with #Meriam&#038;family. Thanked her for her &#8220;constant witness&#8221; to faith. She thanked him for church&#8217;s prayers,support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariam Yahya Ibrahim and her family landed in Italy en route to a new life in the U.S. A woman in Sudan who faced the death sentence for refusing to renounce Christianity safely landed in Italy en route to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45280\">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":[39,40,50,42,664,202,101,168,144,161,426,98,659,155,151,102,108,346,34,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-marriage-family","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280","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=45280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}