I am so grateful for the response to yesterday’s post about Meriam’s horrific situation.
There is no doubt that Almighty God is up to something – stirring the hearts of
His people for a precious woman and sister in Christ in chains in a
Sudanese Federal Prison.

So many of you have shared the link to the post and I am certain that if
Meriam knew of your efforts she would be so thankful!

In the meantime the Sudan embassy has released an official statement that
they are in full support of the actions of the court, which can be read here.
The official statement is downright ludicrous!  It will make you even more
outraged!

Meriam’s husband, Daniel Wani has been very thankful for the rising show of
outrage at his wife’s sentencing and told CNN:


“I want to thank everyone for this stand.  
It’s looking like it had an effect.   Perhaps it will result in the 
judgment being overturned.”  

Update:  Meriam’s husband is a United States citizen and after I published the post
yesterday two sweet bloggy friends, Beth and Elizabeth {crazy, same name!}
wrote and shared with me the link to a White House petition on Meriam’s behalf.  
If a petition has over 100,000 signatures the White House is forced to respond to it.

All one has to do is register to sign.  There are all kinds of White House petitions
going on a regular basis.  There is no threat to your safety to sign and I have never
been contacted in any way since registering to sign a different petition
 about a year or two ago.

So here’s my question for today:

Would you please sign the White House petition on Meriam’s behalf 
and would you then please ask your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, 
and anyone else you can think of to sign as well??  


The sooner the White House petition has the 
mandatory 100,000 signatures –  the sooner 
the White House is forced to respond!!  


And an interesting side note –


Anyone 13 or older can participate 
and sign the White House petition –
it says so right here!!  


Other governments have expressed outrage at Meriam’s horrific sentencing…
we need the government {which Meriam’s husband is a citizen of} to swiftly
respond.


It is said that Meriam will face her 
100 lashes 
in the next two weeks!  

Can you even imagine? 


Okay, now I had an idea…

and I want to, shall we say, sweeten the deal…

because I know that there are a few folks out there that might timidly think,
“I shared yesterday about Meriam, I don’t want to bother my friends today.”

All I can say is that Meriam is still sitting in a jail, her legs shackled, 
because she is a Christian.  Meriam is facing 100 lashes in the next 2 weeks…
we cannot be afraid of what people will think if we continue to advocate 
for Meriam’s release!!

So here’s my sweet deal….

I hopped on the web site and ordered another Perpetua DVD – the DVD that makes
me sob {literally} each time I watch it.  Meriam and Perpetua have so much in
common.  Perpetua was even living in North Africa at the time of her martyrdom!!

I would like to give the DVD to one of you.

All you have do to be entered in the drawing for the Perpetua DVD 
is share this post – yesterday’s doesn’t count, sorry! 


Please asking friends, family, co-workers, etc. to sign the White House petition….
if I had known about the White House petition yesterday I would have 
included it in the post yesterday.  

But I didn’t.

Soooooo…..

The White House petition is very, very important.


Your signature counts! 

It really does!  In fact, if you keep refreshing the petition page you will see
the numbers slowly climbing!

After sharing this post about the White House petition, then just leave a comment on
this post or leave a comment on the Facebook blogpost link saying that you shared it….

The DVD is supposed to arrive Tuesday.  The kids and I will have a drawing and
randomly pick one of you who comment about sharing today’s post
to get the DVD that we love so much.  We will get it in the mail to you asap.

World Magazine had an excellent and very informative article about Meriam here.

Lastly, here are the other ways {from yesterday’s post} that you can help Meriam: