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29/07/2015
Malteser International provides emergency relief for 33,000 people In the first three months after the severe earthquake which hit Nepal on the 25th April 2015, Malteser International, the Order of Malta worldwide relief agency, provided emergency aid for around 33,000 people. In the especially hard-hit districts of Sindhupalchok and Khavre north east of the capital, […]
23/07/2015
To offer a smile to a sick child by fulfilling his or her greatest dreams. This is the aim of Make a Wish to the Sovereign Order of Malta, the initiative addressed to Serbian children and adolescents living in the areas struck by the violent floods in 2014. Promoted by the Sovereign Order of Malta’s […]
09/07/2015
Millions of people displaced by hunger and violence – humanitarian aid alone is not enough On the fourth anniversary of the independence of South Sudan, Malteser International – the Order of Malta worldwide relief agency – is giving an urgent warning against renewed famine in the country and calling on all those who carry responsibility […]
08/07/2015
Bolzano, Lavarone and Rovereto: these are the stopping places of Fra’ Matthew Festing’s journey of remembrance in Trentino-Alto Adige. Those who fell in World War I and the medical treatment and aid dispensed by the Order of Malta’s members and volunteers to soldiers and civilians on all the fronts were remembered during a ceremony on […]
04/07/2015
Pope Francis has today nominated Monsignor Jean Laffitte as the new Prelate of the Sovereign Order of Malta. Born in France, at Oloron-Sainte-Marie in 1952, Monsignor Laffitte graduated in Political Science at the University of Toulouse in 1973. He subsequently read philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and moral theology at […]
03/07/2015
“Ordine di Malta-Ordre de Malte. Fotografie inedite-Photographies inedites 1880-1960” is a book in Italian and French recently brought out by the publishing house Gangemi. It contains two hundred unpublished photographs from the archives of the Grand Magistry and those of the Grand Priories and National Associations, taken between the end of the 19th and the […]
26/06/2015
To step up prevention and develop rehabilitation therapies for leprosy patients in Vietnam: this is the ambitious project of Ordre de Malte France, present in Vietnam for over 40 years with leprosy treatment and prevention programmes.
25/06/2015
Held on the feastday of St. John the Baptist, the Sovereign Order of Malta’s patron This morning in the Vatican City, Pope Francis received in audience the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra’ Matthew Festing. During the meeting, the Grand Master illustrated to the Pontiff the Order’s work in assisting refugees and […]
17/06/2015
National Associations, rescue corps and volunteers unite to highlight the worldwide drama The number of refugees and displaced persons worldwide has reached levels not recorded since the end of World War II. In Syria, over four years of conflict now mean that a family is forced to leave home every 60 seconds. It is calculated […]
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