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Pope Francis met with Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, Thursday after her surprise release from her home country and a flight to Rome with her husband and two children. Ms. Ibrahim, whose estranged father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy and was being held in U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, until she was unexpectedly allowed to leave the country by Sudanese officials.

EDITORIAL: Meriam Ibrahim’s happy immigrant story

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pope Francis met with Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, Thursday after her surprise release from her home country and a flight to Rome with her husband and two children. Ms. Ibrahim, whose estranged father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy and was being held in U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, until she was unexpectedly allowed to leave the country by Sudanese officials.

Supporters hail freedom for Sudanese Christian mother who refused to recant her faith

By Kristen East The Washington Times - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, with her daughter Maya in her arms, in his Santa Marta residence, at the Vatican, Thursday, July 24, 2014. The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to recant her Christian faith has arrived in Italy along with her family, including the infant born in prison. Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy. She married her husband, a Christian, in a church ceremony in 2011. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, File)

Pope Francis meets Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death

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A wedding photo of Daniel Wani and Meriam Ibrahim

Christian mom on death row for renouncing Islam flees to U.S. Embassy in Sudan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A wedding photo of Daniel Wani and Meriam Ibrahim

Sudan arrests Christian mother after releasing her from prison

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this file image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

Sudan orders release of Christian woman sentenced to death for apostasy

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

A wedding photo of Daniel Wani and Meriam Ibrahim

FIELDS: Islamic barbarism and the ‘war on women’

By Suzanne Fields

This May 9, 2014, photo shows the South Portico of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

White House petition seeks pressure on Sudan for Christian woman

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

UN to focus on protecting civilians in South Sudan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

NH senators trying to help man from Sudan

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South Sudan loses 1st ever qualifier 5-0

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