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Grand Master news
22/06/2018

Pope Francis receives the Grand Master in Audience: “Go ahead with courage, you express spirituality through your works”

Pope Francis received the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, in audience today in the Vatican. During the meeting, the Grand Master illustrated the Order of Malta’s main activities in the humanitarian and diplomatic sectors last year.

20/06/2018

Malteser International calls for more humanity ahead of World Refugee Day

The number of refugees and displaced persons around the world continues to increase every year. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates there are now almost 70 million people forcibly displaced across the globe, including over 22 million refugees.

19/06/2018

Second Asian summer camp for the disabled took place in the Philippines

A total of 150 guests coming from Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia and the Philippines attended the 2nd Asia-Pacific Summer Youth Camp, organized by Order of Malta Philippines in the picturesque Villa Escudero in Tiaong, in Quezon north of Manila, from 5 to 9 June.

Latest interventions
18/06/2018

Aquarius Migrants, Order of Malta’s Medical Team on Dattilo: “In their eyes the hope for a better future”

Yesterday morning, Maria Rita Agliozzo and Marika Giustiniani, health professionals with the Order of Malta’s Italian Relief Corps, disembarked from the ship Dattilo in the port of Valencia. Last Tuesday they had embarked on the Coast Guard ship in Pozzallo to assist the 629 migrants arriving from the Libyan coast and saved at sea by the search and rescue operations of the SOS Méditerranée.

Diplomatic Activities
Grand Master news
14/06/2018

Credentials presented by Nicaragua and Benin

The Grand Master, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, received in audience in the Magistral Palace for the presentation of their Letters of Credence, the new Ambassadors of: Nicaragua, H.E. Esther Margarita CARBALLO MADRIGAL Benin, H.E. Agnes AVOGNON ADJAHO

Latest interventions
12/06/2018

Order of Malta’s Medical Team on the Ship Dattilo to Assist Aquarius Migrants

A medical team of the Order of Malta’s Italian Relief Corps has just now boarded the Coast Guard ship Dattilo to assist those migrants who will shortly be transferred from the Acquarius vessel.

Latest interventions
08/06/2018

Guatemala Volcano Eruption: Order of Malta on site to provide medical assistance to victims and displaced persons

According to the latest information from the Guatemalan government, the death toll from last Sunday’s eruption of the Fuego volcano, 35 kilometres south-west of the capital of Guatemala, has risen to 109.

Latest interventions
05/06/2018

A Night Shelter Inaugurated in Tbilisi

On 30th March last a new night shelter for the homeless was inaugurated in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Opened in the premises of the Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, it offers ten beds.

Diplomatic Activities
29/05/2018

“Migrants and Refugees” conference in Rome, Pope Francis’ message and the Order of Malta’s action

It was the touching testimony of Sister Angel Bipendu, doctor with the Order of Malta’s Italian Relief Corps, to open the conference “Migrants and Refugees: Pope Francis’ Message and the Order of Malta’s Action” held this morning in the Magistral Villa, one of the Order’s extra-territorial seats in Rome.