Order of Malta opens Gaza clinic, aids war-torn Ukraine, sends teams to Venezuela

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta’s humanitarian outreach assisted 9 million people in 2025 across conflict- and disaster-affected regions, including Gaza and Ukraine, and has launched an emergency response in Venezuela.

Speaking for the nearly 1,000‑year‑old humanitarian order, Josef Blotz, its grand hospitaller, told “EWTN News Nightly” about “the sobering degree of need” and the “requirements amidst destruction” in Gaza after the Israel‑Hamas conflict.

As grand hospitaller, Blotz supervises the order’s health and social affairs offices. He has served in the position since February 2025.

Blotz oversaw the opening of a health clinic in Gaza City on June 22 in partnership with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Calling it an “honor” to open the facility alongside Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Blotz said it was “a wonderful opportunity to live up to the order’s charism” by serving “the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable” in Gaza City.

“Itʼs very important for me to outline that we are not only looking after our Catholic people in this parish or of the Christians,” he said of the clinic located on the premises of Holy Family Church…