Isis militants slaughter more than 300 Yazidi captives in northern Iraq ...

Isis militants slaughter more than 300 Yazidi captives in northern Iraq after thousands were taken captive from villages

Isis militants slaughter more than 300 Yazidi captives in northern Iraq after thousands were taken captive from villages Hundreds of Yazidi prisoners have been killed near Mosul in northern Iraq Yazidi Progress Party condemned the 'heinous criminal acts' by extremists

More than 300 Yazidi prisoners have been slaughtered by Islamic State militants near Mosul in Iraq. According to the Yazidi Progress Party, hundreds were murdered by Isis on Friday in the Tal Afar district, although it is not known how they were killed. Around 40,000 people were kidnapped at gunpoint when the terrorists attacked Yazidi villages last summer.

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“Peacock

Ancient Greeks believed that the flesh of peafowl did not decay after death, and so it became a symbol of immortality. This symbolism was adopted by early Christianity, and thus many early Christian paintings and mosaics show the peacock. The peacock is still used in the Easter season especially in the east.[22] The “eyes” in the peacock’s tail feathers symbolise the all-seeing God and - in some interpretations - the Church. A peacock drinking from a vase is used as a symbol of a Christian believer drinking from the waters of eternal life. The peacock can also symbolise the cosmos if one interprets its tail with its many “eyes” as the vault of heaven dotted by the sun, moon, and stars. By adoption of old Persian and Babylonian symbolism, in which the peacock was associated with Paradise and the Tree of Life, the bird is again associated with immortality. In Christian iconography the peacock is often depicted next to the Tree of Life.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_symbolism

http://themeaningofsymbols.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/peacock-symbolism.html
http://www.jesuswalk.com/christian-symbols/peacock.htm
http://www.catholic-saints.info/catholic-symbols/peacock-christian-symbol.htm

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