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23/07/2015

Make a Wish: the Sovereign Order of Malta’s initiative for Serbian children

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…

09/07/2015

South Sudan: Malteser International warns of renewed famine

Millions of people are displaced by hunger and violence – humanitarian aid alone is not enough.

08/07/2015

The Grand Master in Trentino-Alto Adige a hundred years after the outbreak of the great war

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…

04/07/2015

Pope Francis nominates the new Prelate of the Sovereign Order of Malta

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…

03/07/2015

A Photography Book Recounting the Order of Malta from 1880 to 1960

“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 It contains two hundred unpublished photographs…

26/06/2015

Vietnam: New Project for Treating and Rehabilitating Leprosy Patients

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…

25/06/2015

Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing Audience with Pope Francis

This morning in the Vatican City, Pope Francis received in audience the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra’ Matthew Festing.

17/06/2015

World Refugee Day. The Sovereign Order of Malta launches international campaign: No to the construction of walls

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…

09/06/2015

Credentials presented by Slovenia and Panama

Credentials presented by Slovenia and Panama.