The seventh convocation of EMO, which stands for Encuentros de Monjes de Oriente y Ocidente (Meetings of Monks from East and West) was held in Malta from 8 to 11 May 2008. Initiated in Bilbao, Spain, by the Archbishop of that City, EMO brings together religious, priests and pastors from every part of Christendom with a view to examine, in a spirit of fraternal prayer, theological questions in their contemporary context.

Convened by the Rev.Professor Edward Farrugia S.J., Dean of Theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, EMO VII was coordinated by the Fondation de Malte through its President, Professor Salvino Busuttil. Opened by the Catholic Archbishop of Malta, H.E. Mgr Paul Cremona, O.P., the conference focussed on 'Spirituality for the People : on the wavelength of St Paul, Mobility and Stability'.

Given its Pauline theme, EMO II was celebrated in different sites of Malta connected to St Paul's Shipwreck on the Island circa 58 A..D. Speakers included His Eminence Metropolitan Gennadios Zervos, Orthodox Archbishop of Italy and Malta, the Rev.Prof. Geoffrey Wainwright (the well-known Methodist theologian), the Rev.Prof. Martin Walraff, Lutheran Professor of Theology at the University of Basel, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Grigorios Papathomas and the Very Rev. Archimandrite Prof. Job Getcha, both of the Orthodox St Sergius Institute in Paris, and the Rev. Prof. Hector Vall, former Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute.

The participants agreed that EMO should have a permanent secretariat which, in principle, it has been agreed to entrust to the Fondation de Malte.