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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 “world freedom fighter,” and later by cheering supporters in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Mariam Ibrahim flew from Rome,\u00a0where 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

Daniel Wani, her husband, briefly thanked New Hampshire’s Sudanese community on his family’s behalf and said he appreciated the outpouring of support.<\/p>\n

“I can’t describe the feeling,” said Wani. “We are so tired. The ordeal is over.”<\/p>\n

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

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

She married Wani, a Christian from southern Sudan, in 2011. By law, children must follow their fathers’ religions.<\/p>\n

Sudan initially blocked Ibrahim from leaving the country\u00a0despite its highest court overturning her death sentence in June.<\/p>\n

The family took\u00a0refuge at the US embassy<\/a>\u00a0in Khartoum.<\/p>\n

There are about 500 Sudanese living in Manchester, a city of 110,000 residents north of Boston, the AP news agency reported.<\/p>\n

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

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Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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