A Sudanese Christian woman has been arrested at Khartoum airport a day after a court annulled her death sentence and released her from prison, a source familiar with the incident says.
“The National Security took her and Daniel,” said the source, referring to Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, and her American husband Daniel Wani.
The status of their two young children, one a baby born in prison before Ishag’s release, was not immediately known.
The couple were detained, for reasons that are unclear, as they tried to leave the country, said the source.
He could not give more details except to say they were taken to a facility of the powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).
“She has the right to leave the country,” the source said.
Her case sparked an outcry from Western governments and rights groups after a lower-court judge sentenced her to death on May 15.
Born to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, Ishag was convicted under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
When Ishag was five, her father abandoned the family, and she was raised according to her mother’s faith.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum said she joined the Catholic Church shortly before she married. [AFP]
my dear sister mariam, do not forget that jesus is with you, Do not forget that they are prepairing you to become an intnl everngelist. Any xtian read this news again should pray for mariam and her family.
She has d right to religion.why are they forcing her to be islam wen decides to be christian.my sister don’t give up the good fight of faith knowing well that christ is with you.
Mariam is only being assisted as prescribed. Jesus is not wt her at all. For your information, Jesus christ was never a Christian. so u should stop liviing in a fools paradise. We shall soon meet Baba God and u’ll see how Jesus will deny all of u calling christian.
LORD I THANK U FOR THIS FAMILY,THEY REPRESENT POLYCAP IN OUR GENERATION.EMMANUEL!