Prime Minister Robert Abela called on the cloistered nuns of St Catherine Monastery in Valletta on Tuesday.

He said on Facebook that he called before presiding a Cabinet meeting at the Auberge de Castille. 

Female cloistered communities have seen a sharp decline in the past few decades and according to a Times of Malta report last year, St Catherine's monastery has a community of three nuns.

 

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