Africa seems to be the latest target for terrorist activities incited by religious hatred. Incidents include the Boko Haram tragedy in Nigeria and the latest from Sudan, where a woman named Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, is condemned to death for apostasy: being a Christian. Ishag, who is a pregnant mother, doctor, and Orthodox Christian is accused […]
A Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death over her marriage to a Christian man and choice of religion. 27-year-old Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, who is a practicing Christian and was convicted by a Khartoum court this week of apostasy, which is the renunciation of faith, because the court considered her to be Muslim. Additionally, the condemned […]
Malakal in the Upper Nile State of Sudan is the site of the most recent fighting, continuing the now-10-day struggle for power between the Kiir government and the Machar-led rebels. Malakal is the capital of the Upper Nile State, an oil region. On December 24 the South Sudan army defeated the rebels without much resistance […]