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Grand Master news
20/08/2018

Grand Master at 35th International Summer Camp for the disabled urges guests to be brave

“Be courageous, we have to be brave to welcome those who suffer and those who are strangers to us”. With these encouraging words, the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto addressed the participants of the Order of Malta’s 35th International Summer Camp for young disabled, on 15 August.

16/08/2018

First Aid Post kept busy as Pope Francis meets Young Italians

Braving the August heat, the young people who participated en masse in the prayer vigil in Circus Maximus with Pope Francis poured into St. Peter’s Square the next day, Sunday 12th August.

Latest interventions
09/08/2018

To Santiago di Compostela in a wheelchair

The Order of Malta’s history has for many centuries been linked to the pilgrimage route to Santiago di Compostela where the remains of the Apostle James the Great are buried. From ancient times, the knights have offered accommodation and healthcare in hospitals, convents and churches to pilgrims along their journey.

07/08/2018

The Order of Malta’s summer activities focussed on the disabled

Everything is ready for the Order of Malta’s 35th International Summer Camp for Disabled Young People. This year it will be held in England in Hampshire, a county on the south coast, from 11th to 18th August.

Latest interventions
31/07/2018

Greek fires now under control but aid and medicines are urgently needed. Immediate response of the Order of Malta in Germany

Greek doctors sent an urgent request to the Order of Malta in Germany for humanitarian aid and medicines for the victims of the wildfires that have devastated areas around Athens, causing at least 85 deaths with many people still missing and hundreds injured.

27/07/2018

On world day against human trafficking the Order of Malta calls for increasing joint efforts

On the World Day Against Human Trafficking, 30 July 2018, the Sovereign Order of Malta appeals to governments and civil society, including business, to take measures to prevent and end human trafficking, while protecting and assisting victims and survivors.

24/07/2018

Ordre de Malte France publishes its activity report: over 90 years in the service of the poor and the sick

For a more inclusive world: the cover of the 2017 report of the Ordre de Malte France, which last year celebrated its 90th anniversary, is dedicated to the excluded and the homeless.

Grand Master news
18/07/2018

The Grand Master’s State Visit to Cameroon

Welcomed upon his arrival in Yaoundé by Prime Minister Philémon Yang, Grand Master Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto arrived in Cameroon for a state visit from 16 to 19 July.

Latest interventions
12/07/2018

Miss Cambodia winners join the Leprosy Awareness Campaign

To promote knowledge about the illness and remove the stigma: this is the purpose of the awareness day on Hansen’s disease, commonly known as leprosy, organized by the Ciomal Foundation (Order of Malta International Campaign against Leprosy) on 10 July last in the Kien Khlang rehabilitation centre, in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.