BBC News reports that Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman who was due to be sent to the gallows for refusing to renounce Christianity and recently gave birth while on death row, is due to be released in the next few days.
Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.
Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as "barbaric" and out of step with today's world.
The UK Foreign Office this week said that it would push for Ms Ibrahim to be released on humanitarian grounds.
Ibrahim had been raised as a Christian, but a judge ruled that she was a Muslim because her father, who had abandoned the family years earlier, was a Muslim. Sudan has been under sharia law since the 1989 coup that brought Omar al-Bashir to power, and Ibrahim's renunciation of Islam was a hanging offense. The court also annulled her 2011 marriage to Daniel Wani, a Sudanese-American, since that marriage was not valid under Islamic law. The only concession it allowed was to defer the execution for two years to let her nurse her baby.
Ibrahim's lawyer, Elshareef Ali Mohammed, is somewhat skeptical, telling The Observer of the UK that it may be a ploy by Kharrtoum to deflect the international outrage. But hopefully it is true--it'll be a major relief if it is.