{"id":7678,"date":"2014-06-09T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2014-06-09T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:25:42","slug":"meriam-protest-london-sudan-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/meriam-protest-london-sudan-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meriam Protest at London Sudan Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christians<\/a>
Christians from the UK standing for Meriam outside the Sudanese Embassy in London on Friday 6th June 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monday 9th June 2014.<\/p>\n

Christians from across the United Kingdom gathered in London on Friday afternoon to protest at the death sentence and continuing detention of Meriam Ibrahim in Sudan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Around 35 Christians stood in witness opposite the Sudanese Embassy in Cleveland Row in London before moving across the road for the photographic record on the left. \u00a0The witness was organised jointly by Christian Voice and the Pakistani Christian\u00a0Association.<\/p>\n

After singing hymns and making prayers for the mother-of-two and prisoner of conscience, those assembled signed and delivered a letter to the Sudanese Ambassador.<\/p>\n

We welcome the interest taken in this case by political leaders in the UK. It was therefore high time\u00a0that British Christians should make their concern known to the Sudanese authorities.<\/p>\n

The least we could do for Meriam Ibrahim was to\u00a0show solidarity for her in front of Sudanese territory in London. I believe this is the first demonstration for Meriam to be held at a Sudanese Embassy in the United Kingdom, and possibly in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n

We call on the Sudanese authorities to drop all charges against Meriam Ibrahim.<\/p>\n

We also call on Christians all over the world to follow our example and let Sudan know that Christians show love and concern for one another.<\/p>\n

Sudanese\u00a0Embassy staff heard on Friday from the people of the Lord Jesus Christ, the crucified, risen, ascended, glorified Son of God. \u00a0I am confident that our prayers, and the way we have shown God that they are serious and fervent, will change things in the spiritual realm and bring about Meriam’s release.<\/p>\n

On Saturday 31st May, there were\u00a0statements from an official in the Sudanese government’s foreign ministry that Meriam Ibrahim would be freed ‘in a matter of days’. These turned out to be false.<\/p>\n

If the sentence is not overturned, she will be subjected to 100 lashes and hanged in two years’ time, after the baby to whom she gave birth in hospital is weaned.<\/p>\n

On the morning of the witness, the brother of Meriam Ibrahim called for her execution. \u00a0But at this time of writing, Monday 9th June 2014, her appeal hearing in Sudan had just begun.<\/p>\n

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Text of the letter to the Sudanese Ambassador:<\/p>\n

His Excellency Abdullahi H A El Azreg
\nAmbassador
\nEmbassy of the Republic of Sudan
\n3 Cleveland Row
\nLONDON
\nSW1A 1DD<\/p>\n

6th June 2014<\/p>\n

Your Excellency,<\/p>\n

MERIAM IBRAHIM<\/p>\n

We the undersigned wish to protest at the treatnent of Meriam Ibrahim currently being held in prison in Sudan having been sentenced to death and a flogging by a Sudanese Court for her Christian faith and her marriage to a Christian in Sudan.<\/p>\n

We note that the Sudanese Embassy website has an article opposing ‘Islamophobia’<\/a><\/strong>. Acts such as the brutal sentence passed by Sudan on Meriam Ibrahim only fuel British people’s misgivings about Islam.<\/p>\n

We call on President Omar al-Bashir to direct the Sudanese Courts and Government to drop all charges and release Meriam Ibrahim immediately, to allow freedom to convert to Christianity in law and to guarantee the safety of Christians and the Christian Church in Sudan as required by Sudan’s international obligations.<\/p>\n

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