ICC Note:
Robert P. George is the vice chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
07/03/2014 World (CNN) – The recent ordeal of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, a Sudanese mother and wife of an American citizen—coupled with Iran’s continued imprisonment of Saeed Abedini, also an American citizen and a pastor—should awaken our conscience to one grim and inescapable fact: The persecution of Christians continues.
Charged with leaving Islam to marry a Christian, despite being raised a Christian and remaining one throughout her 27 years, Meriam was sentenced to death last month for apostasy. After an international outcry, she was released, rearrested, and released again, according to the U.S. State Department.
In Sudan and Iran, as well as countries like Saudi Arabia, leaders and movements impose their own extreme interpretations of Islam, while restricting the rights of Christians and other religious minorities.
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