{"id":4954,"date":"2014-09-03T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:01:09","slug":"yemen-woman-burned-to-death-for-her-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"YEMEN: Woman Burned to Death for Her Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Morning Star News<\/a>, August 29, 2014<\/p>\n

On the morning of June 9 in southern Yemen, Saeed woke to the sound of screaming. He shot out of bed, pushed panicked family members aside and saw his wife stumbling out of their kitchen, engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

His wife, Nazeera, had been preparing breakfast at about 9 a.m. when she poured liquid from a cooking oil bottle into a hot pan. The liquid flashed, and the bottle exploded. While her four children watched, screaming, Nazeera was being burned alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rushed out of the room,\u201d Saeed told Morning Star News, weeping. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even speak to ask her what happened. All I could think about was putting the fire out and then getting her to the hospital. But my 16-year-old son, he couldn\u2019t stop himself and held on to her, hugging her while she was burning. He got hurt, and I had to pull him away from her.\u201d<\/p>\n

About two weeks later, Nazeera, 33, died as a result of her burns. When Saeed returned to his home in a village after her death, a relative told him the unthinkable \u2013 members of both his family and hers had taken the vegetable oil out of the bottle and replaced it with gasoline. Saeed knew the reason \u2013 many years ago, the two had become Christians and refused to return to Islam.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Morning Star News, August 29, 2014 On the morning of June 9 in southern Yemen, Saeed woke to the sound of screaming. He shot out of bed, pushed panicked family members aside and saw his wife stumbling out of their kitchen, engulfed in flames. His wife, Nazeera, had been preparing breakfast at about 9 … Continue reading YEMEN: Woman Burned to Death for Her Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}