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			<title>Italy puts Baghdad Museum online</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Iraq's treasures on show in eight 'virtual' halls(ANSA) - Rome, June 9 - The treasures of Baghdad's National Museum went online for the first time Tuesday as Italy inaugurated the Virtual Museum of Iraq as part of an ongoing cultural collaboration between the two countries.Looted during the United States-led invasion in 2003, the Baghdad Museum partially reopened in February after six years but the website is designed to make its most important artifacts accessible to everyone.The site (www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it), in Arabic, English and Italian, offers visitors the chance to walk through eight virtual halls and admire works from the prehistoric to the Islamic period, while videoclips reconstruct the history of the country's main cities.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jamal Bidawid&#8217;s Historical Letter to AssyriaSat</title>
			<description><![CDATA[By AssyriaTimes Staff WriterIn a flash-back to recent years in Assyrian history and to refresh the memories, AssyriaTimes decided to publish the translation of historical letter Mr. Jamal Bawid sent to AssyriaSat after the funeral of Patriarch Mar Raphael Bidawid. Mr. Jamal Bidawid, the brother of the deceased Mar Raphael I Bidawid, called the AssyriaSat on Tuesday, October 28, 2003, on Dr. Sargon Dadesho&#8217;s Live program and read his open letter. The letter reads:Greetings to my beloved Assyrian nation. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my belated appreciation (I was tied up in Lebanon due to funeral arrangements) to the entire Assyrian nation and especially the AssyriaSat for participating in my beloved brother, Mar Raphael I Bidawid&#8217;s funeral. This shows the love and compassion of the Assyrian nation. Your decency will enable you to reach all of your national objectives. My family and I will forever be grateful to AssyriaSat for dedicating special programs in memory of my late brother for three days, and also for showing his entire funeral ceremony. Your love, respect and generosity has moved me and my family in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and America, beyond words. I am unable to show the dept of our gratitude with my pen.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Assyrian Universal Alliance Congress Declaration</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The 26th World Congress of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) was held in Sydney Australia from 20 to 24th of May, 2009. About 50 delegates gathered from Iraq, Iran, USA, Armenia, Russia, Holand, Japan, and Australia. The AUA delegates declared:Assyrian Universal Alliance 26th World Congress 20-24th May 2009 Resolution On Iraq1. CALLS UPON AND DEMANDS that the Federal Republic of Iraq amend the Iraqi Constitution and add the statement in its preamble &#8220;The Assyrians are the Indigenous people of Iraq&#8221;.2. COMMENDS the Federal Republic of Iraq for its efforts in improving country security.3. DEMANDS that the Federal Republic of Iraq implements and executes further measures to prevent attacks against Assyrian people.4. DEMANDS that the Federal Republic of Iraq publicly release the results of its investigation into the Mosul Massacre of October 2008.5. DEMANDS the Federal Republic of Iraq acknowledge and declare that the Assyrians are the indigenous and original people of Iraq, and as promulgated under article 110 of the Iraqi constitution, the Assyrian people of Iraq are therefore entitled to an Assyrian autonomous region encompassing the Assyrian ancestral lands, located between the Greater Zab and Tigris rivers with international borders to the north and west, as part of the Federal Republic of Iraq.6. COMMENDS the Federal Republic of Iraq for the assistance provided for the displaced Assyrian Refugees and further demands that such programs are adequately implemented.7. DEMANDS that the constitution of Iraq contain a minimum guaranteed quota for Assyrian representation, consisting of Assyrian ethnicity, at all levels of government, based on the Iraqi census of 1957, which on current official population count, amount to 2,500,000 or approximately 10 percent of the total population.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Assyrian Universal Alliance Holds its 26th Congress in Sydney</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Preparations are well underway for the twenty-sixth World Congress of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) which will be held in Sydney - Australia from 20 to 24 May, 2009.  The organizing committee for this congress began preparing for this great event and is looking forward to hosting Assyrian delegations from various countries of the Middle East, Europe and the United States.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The Great Monastery of St. Gabriel in Captivity</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A long-standing land dispute between the Syrian Orthodox community in south-east Turkey and the local villagers has finally turned into a legal battle attracting international attention. The disagreement has been closely monitored by the European Union for some time, and US President Barack Obama and the State Department are monitoring the dispute.By Prof. Gabriel SawmaIn a remote village near Midyat, South East Turkey, a land dispute with neighboring villages is threatening the future of Mor Gabriel, one of the World&#8217;s oldest Christian monasteries, also known as the monastery of St. Gabriel, a property of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Suryani).In August 2008, three mukhtars (low level elected officials with limited authority) in Midyat, filed a criminal complaint with a local prosecutor against the Monastery of St. Gabriel alleging it &#8220;illegally appropriated territory by building a wall.&#8221; (See US Department of State, 2008 Human Rights Report: Turkey.)On September 4, a Cadastre court ruled against the monastery and reclaimed all but 30 percent of the monastery&#8217;s lands. Official papers from the 1950s documented the provincial administrative board&#8217;s approval of the monastery&#8217;s borders.St. Gabriel Monastery was founded in 397. It has 3 monks and 14 nuns. It also has 12,000 ancient corpses buried in a basement crypt. On the details of this conflict, see the Wall Street Journal article at http://s.wsj.net/article/SB123638477632658147.html]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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