{"id":36330,"date":"2014-08-01T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=36330"},"modified":"2014-08-01T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T12:07:28","slug":"sudan-apostasy-woman-arrives-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=36330","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8216;apostasy&#8217; woman arrives in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence has arrived in the US, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a &#8220;world freedom fighter,&#8221; and later by cheering supporters in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Ibrahim flew from Rome,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/africa\/2014\/07\/sudan-apostasy-woman-arrives-italy-201472483011438387.html\">where she had met Pope Francis<\/a>,\u00a0to Philadelphia with her husband and two children, en route to Manchester, New Hampshire, where her husband has family and where they will make their new home.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Wani, her husband, briefly thanked New Hampshire&#8217;s Sudanese community on his family&#8217;s behalf and said he appreciated the outpouring of support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t describe the feeling,&#8221; said Wani. &#8220;We are so tired. The ordeal is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim, 27,\u00a0smiled and waved to the crowd of about three dozen supporters, but she did not speak publicly, the Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim had been sentenced to death over charges of apostasy, the abandonment of a religion. Her father was Muslim, and her mother was an Orthodox Christian.<\/p>\n<p>She married Wani, a Christian from southern Sudan, in 2011. By law, children must follow their fathers&#8217; religions.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan initially blocked Ibrahim from leaving the country\u00a0despite its highest court overturning her death sentence in June.<\/p>\n<p>The family took\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/06\/sudan-apostasy-woman-given-us-embassy-refuge-201462774531967564.html\">refuge at the US embassy<\/a>\u00a0in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 500 Sudanese living in Manchester, a city of 110,000 residents north of Boston, the AP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wani, who previously lived in New Hampshire, had been granted US citizenship when he fled to the country as a child to escape civil war, but he later returned and was a citizen of South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence has arrived in the US, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a &#8220;world freedom fighter,&#8221; and later by cheering supporters in New Hampshire. Mariam Ibrahim flew from Rome,\u00a0where she had met Pope Francis,\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-36330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}