Pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for not recanting her Christian faith

Meriam Ibrahim is married, eight months pregnant, the mother of an 18-month-old, and on Thursday was sentenced to die in Sudan. Her lawyer, Al-Shareef Ali al-Shareef Mohammed, told The Associated Press that Ibrahim, 26, was convicted Sunday of "apostasy" for not recanting her Christian faith; Ibrahim's father was Muslim, while her mother — who raised Ibrahim alone after her father left the family — was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia. Members of Ibrahim’s father’s family told authori...