19/12/2010
A memorandum of understanding for cooperation in dealing with emergencies caused by nature or by man was signed in the Magistral Palace by the Russian Deputy Minister Pavel Plat and the Grand Chancellor Jean-Pierre Mazery, in the presence of the Cardinal Patron Paolo Sardi and the Order’s authorities. The agreement between the Order of Malta’s […]
13/12/2010
Over the past six years, Malteser International, the relief service of the Order of Malta for worldwide humanitarian aid, provided psychological and medical treatment for about 49,000 women who had been subjected to assault, rape, and further atrocities in the conflict-ridden province of South Kivu, a region located in the east of the Democratic Republic […]
11/12/2010
In northern France, the heavy snowfall on 8 December caused chaos on the roads and thousands of people were blocked in their cars. The railways were also paralysed in many areas. On the evening and night between 8 and 9 December, Ordre de Malte France participated in rescue services for blocked motorists. In the Yvelines […]
10/12/2010
On a state visit to Portugal, Fra’ Matthew Festing was received by the President of the Republic, met the nation’s highest political and religious authorities and visited some of the social works of the Order’s Association. He also signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen the Order’s action in Portuguese-speaking countries. Meeting with the President of […]
Last October, an unprecedented disaster struck Hungary. A flood of toxic sludge from an alumina plant engulfed Ajka, a town 160 kilometres southwest of Budapest, killing seven people. After having contaminated the Danube, thousands of people were evacuated and hundreds needed medical treatment for wounds and burns – some very serious – caused by contact […]
06/12/2010
For the feast of St. Nicholas, celebrated today, the Order of Malta’s volunteer corps Malteser Hilfsdienst organized some 200 initiatives throughout Germany for people living alone, the sick and the elderly, in the footsteps of the saint often obscured in the western culture by the commercial figure of Father Christmas. “For St. Nicholas day we […]
04/12/2010
Malteser International in Port-au-Prince relief camps as epidemic grows twice as fast as estimated Malteser International, the worldwide relief service of the Order of Malta, is currently working round the clock in Haiti in the fight against the spread of cholera. In cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), special relief measures […]
25/11/2010
Pope Benedict XVI held the third ordinary consistory of his pontificate, in which he appointed 24 new cardinals including the papal representative to the Order of Malta, Paolo Sardi, in St. Peter’s Basilica on 20 November. In the same consistory, the Order of Malta’s chaplains Francesco Monterisi, Mauro Piacenza, Gianfranco Ravasi, Paolo Romeo and Donald […]
22/11/2010
Irina Bokova, Director General of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO), was received by the Grand Chancellor, Jean-Pierre Mazery, at the Order of Malta’s Magistral Villa in Rome on 21 November. At the meeting, talks focused on strengthening cooperation between UNESCO and the Order of Malta in the field of culture and, […]
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