The island of Molokai is an unspoiled paradise — the last Hawaiian island that has held out against cruise ships and mass tourism — but for 100 years to more than 8,000 people, it was a prison. On the ...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.” ...

Penikese Island is one of the Elizabeth Island chain that hangs like a string of jewels across Buzzard’s Bay west of Martha’s Vineyard. It has a distinction few places have ever challenged: From 1905 ...

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 ...

The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one — a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony. Kalawao County, which ...

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Local celebrity Wayne Messmer will be visiting Saint Anne’s Catholic Community in Barrington on Friday, Feb. 20 to perform his one-man play portraying Saint Damien, who worked with lepers on a colony ...

There is an old story that an argument broke out on the Senate floor in the 1950s between the renowned but politically maladroit Sens. Paul Douglas and Joseph Clark. “Uh, oh,” said Sen. Eugene ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities have reported a robbery on a tiny Greek island once used as a leper colony. Police said Monday that power tools were used to break into the archaeological site at the ...

Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run’ Venezuela Until Transition, After Maduro Captured Mamdani to Establish New ‘Office of Mass Engagement’ Led by Veteran Socialist Organizer Israel Accuses Mamdani of Pouring ...