Monday, June 02, 2014
Our journey begins
Today we are traveling back to Tanzania for the first time in over nine years. For the rest of this summer updates to this blog will be spotty at best. You can read more about our time in Tanzania at our other website here. Please pray for our safe travel.
Today's verse
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Proverbs 25:25 (KJV)
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Update on Asia Bibi
No news on whether Asia Bibi will get a new date for the appeals court to hear her case. But God has not forgotten her.
The online petition calling for mercy for Asia Bibi can still be found here.
For those who do not know who she is, here is the story about Asia Bibi's unjust imprisonment and death sentence for "blasphemy" against the Prophet Muhammad.
Please pray for Asia Bibi and her family.
Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag
According to the Sudan Tribune there is some confusion over whether Mariam Ishag will be released.
Key quote:
The Sudanese foreign ministry denied a statement attributed to its Undersecretary Abdallah Alazrag in which he announced that the government will seek to free a woman sentenced to death for apostasy within the next few days."The lady will be freed within days in line with legal procedure that will be taken by the judiciary and the ministry of justice," Alazrag told Agence France Presse (AFP) earlier today.
“She will definitely not be executed. I am sure about this,” he told The Sunday Times in separate remarks.
The Sudanese diplomat made similar statements to BBC and Reuters. Sudan Tribune reporter in Khartoum said that Alazrag, who was Khartoum’s ex-ambassador to London, has been staying in Britain for some time seeking medical treatment.
He did not specify how the 27-year-old Meriam Yehya Ibrahim would be released despite a court conviction which a lawyer told Sudan Tribune can only be overturned by appeals court or a clemency issued by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
In a statement to CNN, Sudan’s foreign ministry spokesperson Abu Bakr al-Sideeg, said he was unaware of any plans to release Ibrahim “before a ruling from an appeals court”.
Sudan Tribune failed to reach the spokesperson despite repeated attempts today.
A recent picture of Mariam and her children, who are also imprisoned with her:
Today's verse
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalm 61:1-3 (KJV)
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