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23/06/2008
Fra’ Matthew Festing, Grand Master of the Order of Malta, was received this morning by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican. The Order of Malta’s commitment in the Middle East, the effects of its medical and humanitarian operations in some of the most tormented areas in the planet, including Myanmar, Mexico and Peru, […]
23/06/2008
The Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra’ Matthew Festing, has received today at the Magistral Palace the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, Kinga Göncz.
22/06/2008
Malteser International has started renovations on a public health unit in the village of Tay Giang, central Vietnam. An ethnic minority lives in conditions of extreme poverty in this mountainous area. In this part of Vietnam the health units, besides being scarce and badly equipped, are also difficult to reach. Hence the Order of Malta’s […]
22/06/2008
60,000 in Yangon gain access to safe drinking water An after effect of cyclone Nargis is polluted water. Order of Malta Emergency Relief teams have been able to set up water purification systems in Yangon, which mean safe drinking water for 60,000 people. The teams are also providing first aid and medical treatment for the […]
19/06/2008
“To have managed to preserve, over the centuries and throughout the vicissitudes of every epoch, the same spirit of solidarity, vocation and assistance to the most needy in society, evoking the heritage of the founder and patron of the nursing procession, St. John of God”. With these words, the National College of Nurses in Spain, […]
08/06/2008
“I want to remind you of the motto of our pilgrimage, taken from the second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians: ‘We see ourselves as those have nothing and yet possess all things’. To see a thousand of you this evening is an impressive sight and some could easily conclude that “we consider ourselves […]
06/06/2008
fter the recent Alma and Arthur storms, the government of Guatemala has started to distribute the 38 tonnes of food donated by the Order of Malta and the UN World Food Programme to some 20,000 flood victims. The national disaster response agency (CONRED) has organised the transport of the food in trucks to the most […]
06/06/2008
Grand Hospitaller Boeselager speaks at the UN Food Conference in Rome The Order of Malta’s Minister for International Co-operation Albrecht Boeselager, spoke today to a packed auditorium of world leaders at the Conference on World Food Security, at the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. He stated the Order of […]
03/06/2008
The Irula are one of the most isolated groups in India. An indigenous population who used to have no land rights, no access to mainstream schooling, health centres or other government support. And then the tsunami swept away the few things they possessed. During a solemn ceremony, the Order of Malta’s international relief corps consigned […]
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