Visit of Panamanian Foreign Minister

How to better fight human trafficking: The Order of Malta organizes conference with international experts to forge new synergies

Over the past two years the Sovereign Order of Malta has scaled up its action in the fight against human trafficking. Yesterday, in Paris, it organized the conference “How to better fight sexual trafficking of women in West Africa and support their rehabilitation”, bringing together dozens of experts, including diplomats, academics, policy makers, representative of European and Nigerian institutions, Catholic organizations, sister’s congregations, and psychosocial counsellors.

Hungarian Association Renews its Headquarters

On 24th September the Monastery of Buda, seat of the Order of Malta’s Hungarian Association, was reopened. The renovation took two years and a new chapel and more space for communal activities were created.

Courtesy visit of Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan at the Magistral Palace

Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan paid a courtesy visit today to the Grand Master, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre, who was accompanied by the Grand Chancellor Albrecht Boeselager. Interreligious dialogue, the violation of human rights, building a humanitarian platform to encourage peace building, water, energy and climate, were just a few of the many topics discussed during the meeting.

New medical mission in Dominican Republic organized by Cuban association brings relief to around 1000 patients

Sponsored by the Cuban association of the Order of Malta, a new medical mission to the Institute for Latin American care- a health centre located in Santiago, Dominican Republic- has just been successfully completed.

Grand Hospitaller signs a cooperation agreement in Ivory Coast

The Grand Hospitaller, Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel, visited Ivory Coast for three days to sign a cooperation agreement with west African countries, where the Order of Malta has long been present, and to attend the consecration of a chapel in the Saint Jean-Baptiste hospital run by Ordre de Malte France.

A renewed friendship between Ecuador and the Order of Malta

The Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Albrecht Boeselager, received last week at the Magistral Palace the Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador to the Holy See, José Luis Alvarez Palacio.

Memorandum of understanding signed with Slovak Ministry of Health to strengthen cooperation

A visit of great significance was made last Friday by the Grand Hospitaller of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Bratislava, where Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel first signed a memorandum of understanding with Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic, Andrea Kalavská and then inaugurated the Malteser Aid Slovakia new headquarters.

Photographic exhibition on the Order of Malta refugee camps in Budapest after the fall of the Berlin Wall

The feelings of anxiety and hope experienced in those days of the summer of 1989 are still well imprinted in their memory. And when today, 30 years on, many of the refugees of that time meet in Berlin to remember the camps set up by the Order of Malta's volunteers in Budapest, which played a large part in the subsequent fall of the Wall, many emotions and images come to life.