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A persecution watchdog is speaking out about a shocking case surrounding a Nigerian woman who scored a surprising legal victory after reportedly being detained and beaten for converting from Islam to Christianity.<\/p>\n
Brad Brandon, CEO of Across Nigeria, recently returned from an extended trip to Nigeria, where he saw and experienced firsthand the horrific persecution impacting so many believers there. He joined CBN News to share that experience and to reflect on Sarah, the Nigerian woman whose court case is making international headlines.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is typically what happens,\u201d he said of Sarah\u2019s plight. \u201cThis happens, I mean \u2026 hundreds of times \u2014 thousands of times \u2014 a year in northern Nigeria. \u2026 12 of the northern Nigerian states are controlled by Sharia law.\u201d<\/p>\n Brandon said there\u2019s a doctrine observed in many Muslim families there that a person who converts to Christianity has committed a crime \u2013 one that can sometimes be punishable by death. Sarah found herself in the crosshairs of this very dynamic.<\/p>\n \u201cYour family can either kill you, or they can hire somebody to kill you, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going on in this case,\u201d he said of Sarah. \u201cSo she converted to Christianity, and she felt threatened by her community and her family. She escaped that situation. Oftentimes, people will escape those situations with the help of other people.\u201d<\/p>\n Sarah was in this camp as she found a Christian family to flee to after her siblings allegedly tried to force her into a marriage. The young woman stayed with this family, who helped rescue her and provide a safe haven; they were also reportedly involved in her conversion to Christianity.<\/p>\n As a result of their actions, the family also faces retribution.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat they were accused of then is kidnapping,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, again, all of these things, all of these details in this story, you could plug them into any other story. It\u2019s the same thing that happens anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n While a judge recently ruled in Sarah\u2019s favor, deciding her rights were impeded when she was reportedly arrested, beaten, and mistreated for her conversion to Christianity, the family who helped her continues to face legal challenges.<\/p>\n Watch Brandon discuss the details of this shocking case:<\/p>\n Please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A persecution watchdog is speaking out about a shocking case surrounding a Nigerian woman who scored a surprising legal victory after reportedly being detained and beaten for converting from Islam to Christianity. Brad Brandon, CEO of Across Nigeria, recently returned from an extended trip to Nigeria, where he saw and experienced firsthand the horrific persecution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[313,7064,782,401,2859,3574,1390,196,1113],"class_list":["post-32012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-christianity","tag-converting","tag-islam","tag-legal","tag-nigerian","tag-shocking","tag-threat","tag-win","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}