Every so often — even in this world of madness and chaos — you see glimmers of hope that justice can prevail.

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim is a 27-year-old Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death. Her “crime”? She refused to renounce her Christian faith in a Muslim country.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/world/africa/sudan-woman-freed/index.html

Great news has just arrived! Ibrahim is free. She reportedly has rejoined her husband after being released by Sudanese government officials.

It’s not often we get to cheer this kind of news. We hear too often of religious persecution that covers the wide range of faiths. And all the great religions have their radical elements that pervert their holy documents to suit some outrageous political agenda.

Christians have been persecuted and have died around the world because they have the temerity to proclaim their faith openly in violation of certain countries’ laws that prohibit such religious expression.

Meriam Ibrahim had been caught in that trap.

Now she’s free. Don’t expect a sea change in Sudan. Just rejoice in the freedom that one young woman — whose only “crime” was to proclaim her faith — has been released from her bondage.