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10/07/2008
A special dedication mass will be held on 25 September next for the new Christ the Light Cathedral Centre in Oakland, California. At the same time the Order of Malta’s health clinic will start up in the cathedral, where work is almost completed. This health clinic was created with the hope of helping the thousands […]
09/07/2008
The third phase of the Home Repair Program, the project of the Order of Malta’s Federal Association to renovate the New Orleans homes destroyed by the Katrina hurricane in August 2005, will take off in September. In the first two stages, from 2005 to 2007, 26 families were able to move back to their homes […]
08/07/2008
In the summer of 2007, the severe floods affected over ten million people in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihair regions in northern India. Malteser International’s programme, financed by the European Commission, is primarily aimed at the most vulnerable people, such as single mothers and their children and the Dalits, the so-called untouchables. In particular, 60 […]
03/07/2008
The Grand Master, Fra’ Matthew Festing today inaugurated a special exhibition of antique Chinese ceramics at Fort St.Angelo in honour of the 78th Grand Master of the Order Fra’ Andrew Bertie, whose love of oriental cultures was well known, as was his belief that the exchange of interest in other cultures was a powerful way […]
01/07/2008
The Palestinian population’s profound economic crisis – and the consequent closure of public hospitals – has meant that an increasing number of patients are being admitted free of charge to the Order of Malta’s maternity hospital in Bethlehem, a modern and efficient structure that accepts pregnant women of every race and religious belief. In recent […]
27/06/2008
In Sri Lanka, the Order of Malta’s Relief Corps is engaged in reuniting with their families the great number of children abandoned in institutions. There are 21,000 children living in institutions nationwide, of which only 3% are orphans. The others have almost always been left there because their families do not have enough money to […]
25/06/2008
Yesterday in Rome, in the Order of Malta’s St. Mary of the Aventine church, H.M.E.H. the Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing attended Holy Mass celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Pio Laghi, on the feast-day of the Order’s patron St. John the Baptist. According to tradition, also in attendance at the solemn occasion were the Sovereign […]
24/06/2008
In Mandeni in the Ilembe district, South Africa, one of the poorest areas in the country, the Order of Malta’s Blessed Gérard Hospice has for years been helping the poor and sick in the region, where 88% of the population test HIV positive. 24 June, the feast day of St. John the Baptist, patron of […]
24/06/2008
The agreement with which the Vatican City State recognises the full validity of stamps issued by the Order of Malta was signed in the Vatican today, 24 June. Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governorate, and Jean-Pierre Mazery, Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, signed the convention that extends the centuries-old relationship between the […]
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