Year 2008

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  27/01/2008

  55th World Leprosy Day

  Over 11,000 volunteers from the Order of Malta’s French Association have raised funds for treating people affected by leprosy, a disease still present in 100 countries. 260,000 new cases were identified in 2007, of which 10% are young people under 14 years of age. Research and assistance to the sick are priorities of the Ordre […]

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  24/01/2008

  Peace and poverty fight in the talks between the Grand Chancellor and the President of East Timor

  José Manuel Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor and Nobel Peace prize winner for 1996, was received by the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta Jean-Pierre Mazery and by members of the Sovereign Council in Palazzo Orsini, one of the Order’s magistral residences in Rome. The talks focused on the cooperation […]

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  11/01/2008

  Credentials presented by Monaco

  The Grand Master Fra’ Andrew Bertie received in the Magistal Palace for the presentation of the Letters of Credence, the new Permenent Representative of the Principality of Monaco, H.E. The Ambassador Jean-Claude Michel.

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  08/01/2008

  Address of the Grand Master to the diplomatic corps

  The Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra’ Andrew Bertie, received at the Magistral Villa on the Aventine the Ambassadors of the 99 countries accredited to the Order for the traditional ceremony of the exchange of good wishes Here is the address of the Grand Master It is always with great pleasure that I […]

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  04/01/2008

  National award for the best tuberculosis treatment centre

  The Riruta diagnosis and treatment centre on the outskirts of Nairobi, financed by Malteser International, has won the 2007 national award as best tuberculosis treatment clinic. In the shanty towns of Nairobi – in which 50% the capital’s population live – the Order of Malta runs eight medical centres that assist 600,000 people. Their main […]

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