Latest Embassy News

17/06/2026

Young adults with disabilities from the “GIOIA Project” meet the Holy Father at the General Audience

The group of young adults with disabilities participating at the GIOIA Project, started and supported by the Embassy of the Order to the Holy See, using four apartments generously granted by the Grand Priory of Rome, took part in the Wednesday morning Papal General Audience in St. Peter's Square. The young people were accompanied by their parents, the President of the Social Cooperative Diversa Arte, Dr. Rosa Maria Bianco, and Ambassador Zanardi Landi and his Consort.

10/06/2026

“DE EUROPA” by Piccolomini inspires a School Project by a High School in Teramo.

At the end of the 2025-2026 school year, students and teachers of the "Delfico" Classical High School in Teramo have developed a work based on the book "De Europa" by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope with the name of Pius II. First translated into Italian from Latin at the initiative of Ambassador Zanardi Landi, the work was published with a preface by HMEH the Grand Master and presented in 2024 at the Embassy of the Order of Malta to the Holy See. ettanto grandi incognite sul futuro dell’Europa che, come ai tempi di Pio II, ricerca oggi una sua rinnovata identità politica e culturale.

06/05/2026

Oath Ceremony of the new recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guards

In the presence of His Holiness, the historic and beautiful oath Ceremony of the new recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guards took place in the Paul VI Hall, Vatican City.

International news

26/06/2026

Order of Malta Celebrates the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist

Grand Master Fra’ John Dunlap, the Sovereign Council and a large representation of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta celebrated the solemnity of St. John…

25/06/2026

Pope Leo XIV receives in audience the Order of Malta’s Grand Master Fra’ John T. Dunlap

The Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra’ John T. Dunlap, was received this morning in audience by Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace. The meeting was…

23/06/2026

RESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SANCTISSIMI

On 23 June 2026, the Constitutional Charter and the Melitense Code of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta were published on…