Mediation Next Step in Teen Muslim-Christian Case

CNN reports that a Christian teen who ran away from her Muslim family in Ohio will stay in Florida for now, but will have to face her parents again. A Florida judge ordered Rifqa Bary and her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, to seek mediation within 30 days. Seventeen-year-old Rifqa maintains that her father threatened to kill her when he discovered her conversion, while Rifqa's parents deny such allegations. "We wouldn't do her harm," the father said, adding that he knew his daughter was involved withChristian organizations. The Bary family is originally from Sri Lanka, and Rifqa says she fears being sent back to be killed or put in an asylum there. The teen ran from home in July to meet a pastor's family in Florida whom she met via Facebook.