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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, has sent a letter of congratulation to Monsignor Angelo Becciu, the Pope’s Special Delegate to the Order, as well as Substitute for General Affairs in the Secretariat of State.

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