Tag: Sudan

Sudanese ‘apostasy’ Mariam now in the US

August 4, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Mariam Ibrahim, South Sudan, Sudan

The Sudanese death-row mother, Mariam Ibrahim, who’s been in global headlines for renouncing Islam, arrived in New Hampshire last week. She was accompanied by her two children and husband Daniel Wani, a dual US and South Sudanese citizen. The family was initially flown to Italy, where they met the Pope, . . . Read More

Mariam’s permission to leave Sudan still unclear

July 21, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Conflicting reports have emerged regarding the current status of Sudan’s ‘death-row mother’ Mariam Ibrahim’s lack of freedom to leave Khartoum for a new life with her husband and children at his American home. On July 17, Reuters reported that the lawsuit brought by Ibrahim’s Sudanese Muslim father was dropped. The . . . Read More

Sudanese church destroyed with 24 hours’ notice

July 2, 2014 Sudan Churches, Khartoum, Sudan

Government officials have destroyed the Sudanese Church of Christ in North Khartoum. With only a 24-hour notice 70 government officials turned up on July 1 to demolish the church, which hosted a congregation of more than 600 people. They said it was because the government wants to use the land . . . Read More

Continued crisis for Sudanese death-row mother

July 1, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Click below for CNN’s exclusive interview with Mariam Ibrahim, the Christian mother who was given a death sentence for apostasy. Ibrahim who is still in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, said, “there’s a new problem every day” including a potential long-term disability of her daughter which doctors fear was caused by the circumstances of Mariam being shackled . . . Read More

Sudan government’s official links with janjaweed

June 26, 2014 Sudan Darfur, Genocide, Sudan

Janjaweed, militias who have terrorised Darfur for years, have been made an official force by the Sudan government, according to a report by the Enough Project, a U.S based genocide-prevention group. “The Sudanese government has abandoned the fig leaf that the janjaweed don’t operate under their command and control,” said the Enough . . . Read More

Sudanese Christian shackled during child birth

May 29, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Mariam Ibrahim’s husband Daniel Wani, has said that his wife’s legs were shackled while she gave birth to their daughter, Maya, in prison on May 27. Ibrahim is the Sudanese mother sentenced to death for apostasy. Wani said he was delighted at seeing his baby daughter but he is angry . . . Read More

Sudanese woman gives birth on death row

May 27, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Mariam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, 27, gave birth to a baby girl at a prison near Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. She is allowed to nurse her new-born baby for two years before the death sentence is fulfilled and her 20-month-old son has been in prison with her since she was arrested. Mariam, . . . Read More

Condemned to hang, pregnant Sudanese doctor refuses to recant

May 16, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Mariam Ibrahim, Sharia, Sudan

Mariam Yahia Ibrahim, a 27-year-old Sudanese doctor due to have her second baby next month, has been condemned to death by hanging, after yesterday (Thursday May 15th) refusing to renounce her Christian faith, despite pressure on her to do so, even in court. Her lawyer reported that, after the court . . . Read More

South Sudan’s fragile peace deal still threatens famine

May 13, 2014 South Sudan Darfur, Dinka, Juba, Nuer, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, UN

Three years after gaining independence, the rebel movement that propelled South Sudan into statehood has degenerated into ethnic bloodletting verging on civil war. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has agreed to form an interim government with his political adversary, Riek Machar following pressure from the United Nations Secretary General Ban . . . Read More

Sudan bombs Catholic hospital

May 6, 2014 Sudan Catholics, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

A Sudanese military aircraft dropped bombs near a Catholic hospital May 1, sending patients, some of them still connected to IV bags, fleeing into foxholes in the bush. Nuba Reports has dramatic video here. Two bombing passes by the jet fighter caused only a few minor injuries and rattled the . . . Read More

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