In 2020, the last leper living in the Saint Charalambos colony in Larnaca died. She was 85 and had been there since the age of 14. Abandoned and neglected, the site fell into decay. Perhaps it was a ...

On a picturesque peninsula of one of Hawaii’s smallest islands are the remnants of one of history’s most horrific medical sequesters. Kalaupapa, on the island of Molokai, is Hawaii’s leprosy colony, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Molokai is an unspoiled paradise — the last Hawaiian island that has held out against cruise ships and mass tourism ...

Alamelu, a gray-haired woman who wears a bright pink sari and a gap-tooth smile, has lived in the Kalvari Nagar leprosy colony in India for 22 years and another colony before that. Her family sent her ...

Some gave only the village they had left. Cho Se-jun arrived on a morning when the sky stayed low and gray. He was thin and ...

When Hawaii exiled its leprosy patients to Molokai, one priest volunteered to live among them — knowing the assignment had no way back. · 0 sources across the spectrum on IJR News.

Now serving as director of The Pontifical Missions Societies USA, Msgr. Roger Landry has been traveling the globe bringing Christ to the far corners of the Earth. His latest travels brought him to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Dobson is a full-time luxury travel writer based in Italy. The tiny island of Jerejak located off the coast of Penang in ...

Leprosy is a disease regarded by many as incurable. As a result, infected persons are often isolated, away from mainstream society, and despised. But is leprosy really incurable? Are those infected ...