WASHINGTON • Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., is urging U.S. officials to "work quickly and use all resources available" to provide a safe haven in the United States for a woman who Monday was reportedly released from a death sentence in Sudan for marrying a Christian.

Blunt and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., had twice written the Secretary of State John Kerry last month on behalf of Meriam Ibrahim, 27, who received the death sentence after marrying a Christian man with ties to New Hampshire. Sudan has criminalized the conversion of Muslims to other faiths, and the penalties can be up to death.

Ibrahim had been imprisoned with a toddler son and gave birth in prison to another child.

According to the Associated Press, her father was Muslim but her mother was a Christian, and she received the penalty after the 2011 marriage to a Christian man in southern Sudan. The case drew widespread international attention.

A Sudanese court Monday ordered Ibrahim released and her sentence for apostasy canceled, AP reported.

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