Hey Boko Haram, pick up a Quran and bring back our girls
Opinion by Arsalan Iftikhar, special to CNN (CNN) - Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have, and we're utterly certain that it condemns...
View ArticleThe worst places in the world to be religious
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor Follow @BurkeCNN (CNN) - Since 1999, the U.S. State Department has tracked the world's worst abusers of religious rights. As the most recent report notes, it...
View ArticleU.S. to Sudan: release Christian woman
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor Follow @BurkeCNN (CNN) - International pressure is mounting on Sudan to release a pregnant Christian woman sentenced to death for apostasy, with members of the...
View ArticleSudanese woman sentenced to death for her Christianity gives birth in prison
By Faith Karimi and Mohammed Osman, CNN (CNN) - A Sudanese woman sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her Christianity has given birth to a girl in prison, her lawyers said Tuesday. Meriam Yehya...
View ArticleDoes Islam really condemn converts to death?
Opinion by Abed Awad, special to CNN (CNN) – Last month, a Sudanese court imposed a death sentence on Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a 27-year-old pregnant mother, because she refused to renounce her Christian...
View ArticleHow an apocalyptic plague helped spread Christianity
By Candida Moss, special to CNN (CNN) - Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed relics from an apocalyptic plague that some Christians believed heralded the end of the world – an idea that likely helped...
View ArticleChristian woman freed from death sentence
(CNN) - A Sudanese woman has been freed from prison a month after being sentenced to die by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. "I am a Christian," Meriam Yehya Ibrahim told the judge...
View ArticleHey religion, your misogyny is showing
Opinion by Randal Maurice Jelks, special to CNN (CNN) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, called one of his books “God is Not a Christian.” He might have added...
View ArticleShe faced death in Sudan for her Christian faith. Now she's free.
Rome (CNN) - Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan because of her faith, arrived in Rome on Thursday, the Italian Foreign Ministry said. Ibrahim "will remain in...
View ArticleWhy missionaries put their lives on the line
By Daniel Burke and Ashley Fantz, CNN (CNN) – It wasn’t as if God’s voice boomed through sun-parted clouds, telling Kent Brantly to move his family to Liberia. Still, the young doctor said, the call...
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