ICC Note:

Mariam Ibrahim was sentenced to death on Mother’s day 2014, making headlines and calling attention  to the severe Christian Persecution in Sudan.  Her entire family suffered in the hands of the Sudanese government who, even though she was born of a Christian mother and grew up as Orthodox Christian insisted she was Muslim (her last name being Muslim) and committed the crime of apostasy by converting.  She faced not only death penalty but the possible loss of her new born child and son who were in prison with her. The government conveniently charged her with adultery, banning children from uniting with their Christian father.

11/22/ 2016  Washington, D.C. (The Christian Post) – Five different churches in the nation’s capital united together Saturday night to pray for Christians being persecuted all over the world and heard first-hand accounts about what it’s like to be tortured, shackled and put on death row because of one’s faith in Christ.

Persecuted Christians from the Middle East and Africa gave their testimonies at the third-annual night of prayer for the persecuted church organized by the organization One Body.

The event was hosted by Christ Our Shepherd Church and featured participants from Chinatown Community Church, Grace DC, National Community Church and The Church of the Resurrection. The gathering also featured worship music by the Church of the Advent worship band.

Giving her testimony at this year’s gathering was Mariam Ibraheem, the Sudanese Christian mother who made headlines in 2014 when was sentenced to death for apostasy because she was married to a Christian man, who was also an American citizen.

Ibrahim, who grew up with her Christian mother, was imprisoned along with her baby son and was even forced to give birth to her baby daughter while chained to a Sudanese prison floor. She was eventually released by the order of an appeals court after spending months in detention. She now lives in Virginia.

“[Under Sharia law,] if you are a Christian woman and you married a Muslim man, your kids have to be a Muslim like their father,” Ibrahim told the audience of around 250 people. “That’s why I was charged with apostasy and adultery because I married a Christian man.”

“My story did not start when I was sentenced or when I was in prison,” she added. “It is the story of many men and women who are Christians in Islamic countries and end up being sentenced to death, beheaded, [or receive] 100 lashes for adultery.”

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