Having read the chapter about christianity and Islam in North Africa I was reminded immediately of the recent news story about the christian women from Sudan whom had been sentenced to death for not renouncing her faith. It is hard to imagine that these types of things, that sound rather antiquated or barbaric in nature, still happen, but they do and I would wager that they occur with much more frequency than you or I would ever care to imagine.
The article states that the women was a Sudanese christian who was born to a christian women and a Muslim father. The father left the family when she was at very young age. Because of the patriarchal culture in Sudan the woman's faith was assumed to be Islam, that of her fathers. But we find that she was raised her mother, who was indeed a christian and raised her within that faith. I also found it very interesting that she was ultimately allowed to immigrate to the United States, in spite of a round of new trumped up charges by the Sudanese government. Of all the things that are questionable about the current United States foreign policy, we can still say that our doors will always be open to refugees; religious or otherwise.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/new-hampshire-sudanese-woman/
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