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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The migration flows, the instability in the Middle East, the rise of xenophobic movements and the challenges the European Union is facing are just a few of the many topics discussed by the Gran Chancellor of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Albrecht Boelesager, during his meeting with ambassadors of European countries.

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Jorge Carlos Fonseca, President of the Republic of Cape Verde, was received by Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto in the Magistral Villa on 2nd July.

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