[robowombat]

The Order reopened the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem in 1990, a special maternity hospital located less than 500 yards from the traditionally recognized birthplace of Jesus Christ. The hospital has the only neonatal intensive care unit in the West Bank and operates a special mobile clinic. The hospital has delivered over 55,000 babies.

With all the petro bucks the Saudis have and the supposed obligation to practice works of charity for the 'faithful' how is it that a Christian charity has to fill this gap in maternal care for the 'faithful'.

[karnage]

The defense of Malta is one of the greatest episodes of courage and perseverance in military history.

[AnalogReigns]

I'm not a Roman Catholic, but neither are all the (current) Knights of the Order of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Hospitallers.

GREAT ADMIRATION for these utterly incredible valiant Christian warriors!

[AnalogReigns]

I'm not a Roman Catholic, but neither are all the (current) Knights of the Order of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Hospitallers.

GREAT ADMIRATION for these utterly incredible valiant Christian warriors!

THE Maltese cross, symbol of the Knights of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Hospitallers

[AnalogReigns]

"Knights and Dames of Malta must be Catholics who “maintain exemplary Christian behavior in their private and public life” and must maintain the Order’s traditions, the Knights of Malta website says."

Actually there are more than 3 groups descendent of the original Hospitallers of Malta. All have historically defensible claims of connection to the pre-Reformation order of Knights or, monks militant, but NOT all are Roman Catholic. One group is connected to the UK, another to Germany, another to, the white Russians (that is the Eastern Orthodox Russian Czar).

In Germany, hospitals, as well as Red Cross functions are funded by Hospitallers using this symbol:

[SkyDancer]

They were not part of the Freemasons, right?