Sovereign Military Hospitaller
Order of St John of Jerusalem of
Rhodes and of Malta

Humanitarian & medical works

Diplomatic Activities
21/03/2023

Meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

On Friday, March 17, the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Ukraine Antonio Gazzanti Pugliese di Cotrone held a working meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenkom.

Latest interventions
14/03/2023

Malteser International providing aid after major fire in world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh

On Sunday 5 March a fire broke out in Bangladesh in the world’s largest refugee camp, near the city of Cox’ Bazar. Around 2,000 shelters have been destroyed and nearly 12,000 people lost their home.

07/03/2023

The Grand Hospitaller visits Poland and Ukraine

The Order of Malta’s Grand Hospitaller Fra' Alessandro de Franciscis’s journey started in Warsaw, Poland, where he met institutional representatives and visited some of the most significant Order of Malta initiatives to assist refugees and those displaced by the war in Ukraine.

01/03/2023

Order of Malta inaugurates a house for displaced persons in Sambir, Ukraine

Malteser Ukraine - the Order of Malta’s Relief Corps in Ukraine - has inaugurated a house for displaced persons in Sambir, near Lviv. The structure, a former clinic, covers almost 800 square metres, has three floors and can accommodate some 100 people.

Latest interventions
22/02/2023

War in Ukraine: The Order of Malta expands its support programmes

Since the beginning of the war one year ago, international and national entities and partners of the Order of Malta have distributed half-a-million hot meals to IDPs, provided 19,000 beds in shelters, as well as generators, trained 13,000 people in first aid, and transferred 16 ambulances.

Latest interventions
14/02/2023

Malteser International: Distributing aid in Syria after the devastating earthquake

One week after the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, aid organization and local units continue to work around-the-clock to provide medical and relief supply to the millions of people affected.

09/02/2023

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Concern for the Syrian population affected

The Malteser International relief team has arrived in Gaziantep, on the border between Turkey and Syria, where the Order of Malta’s international organisation has been providing aid since the outbreak of the war in Syria.

Latest interventions
Lieutenant of the Grand Master News
08/02/2023

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Malteser International relief teams arrive in Gaziantep

The dramatic toll of the earthquake that between Monday night and Tuesday night devastated entire towns - razing them to the ground - between Turkey and Syria, the latter already battered by 12 years of war, is still rising.

Lieutenant of the Grand Master News
07/02/2023

Turkey-Syria earthquake: statement from the Lieutenant of the Grand Master

Following the terrible earthquake that struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, causing thousands of deaths, Fra’ John Dunlap, Lieutenant of the Grand Master, issued the following statement: