{"id":4451,"date":"2014-07-25T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T06:05:49","slug":"sudan-apostasy-woman-meriam-ibrahim-meets-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-apostasy-woman-meriam-ibrahim-meets-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8216;apostasy&#8217; woman Meriam Ibrahim meets Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has met the Pope. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag flew to Rome with her family after more than a month in the US embassy in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>There was global condemnation when she was sentenced to hang for apostasy by a Sudanese court.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Ibrahim&#8217;s father is Muslim so according to Sudan&#8217;s version of Islamic law she is also Muslim and cannot convert.<\/p>\n<p>She was raised by her Christian mother and says she has never been Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming her at the airport, Italy&#8217;s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said: &#8220;Today is a day of celebration.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28460383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has met the Pope. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag flew to Rome with her family after more than a month in the US embassy in Khartoum. There was global condemnation when she was sentenced to hang for apostasy by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,1616,2987,1684,1999,463,257,4694,3192,3191,254,4708,3190,1613],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-khartoum","tag-matteo-renzi","tag-meriam-ibrahim","tag-meriam-yahia-ibrahim-ishag","tag-muslim","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-raised-by-her-christian-mother","tag-sentenced-to-hang-for-apostasy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-apostasy-woman","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}