President Obama contact President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and publically ask him to stop the execution of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim.
A Khartoum court convicted Ibrahim of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, and sentenced her to death. She was born to a Sudanese Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox mother. Her father left when she was 6, and she was raised by her mother as a Christian. Because her father was Muslim, the Sharia law court considered her to be the same. It refused to recognize her marriage to a Christian and also convicted her of adultery, with an additional sentence of 100 lashes.
Before imposing the sentence, the court gave her an opportunity to recant her Christian faith, but Elnabi said Ibrahim refused to do so, declaring: "I am a Christian, and I will remain a Christ