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Massacre of the Innocents
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Massacre of the Innocents
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(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) the slaughter of all the young male children of Bethlehem at Herod's command in an attempt to destroy Jesus (Matthew 2:16-18)
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Farrow, who repeatedly has visited Darfur refugees in Chad, called the fast a way to urge the US President not to ignore "the slaughter of innocents, the death of innocents.
African-American legislators announce fast for Darfur by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
Indeed, notwithstanding the increased slaughter of innocents, they have not deviated from this course set out in the late 1960s, except for raising the importance of the environment.
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If it were possible to hear her voice, we would hear the earth herself crying out in protest, crying out at the slaughter of innocents - at the flimsy justification of the destruction of one group by another, at the action of Cain against Abel.
The Weeping of the Earth for Her Children A Planetary Prayer for Light by Julie Redstone / Philosophy and religion community
 
 
 
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