On Jan. 3, 1865, the Kingdom of Hawaii, then a sovereign state, enacted “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy.” Any person suspected of having the ancient disease – which is mentioned as far back ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAUNA KEA — Growing up, Paul Neves heard stories — vivid, sometimes devastating accounts from his mother, who described what she knew of his ancestors’ experiences in isolation at the Kalaupapa ...

In Yangoji leprosy settlement in Abuja, stigma, recurring fever, and escalating poverty are impacting the daily lives and well-being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pam Fessler, a former NPR News correspondent, will present a lecture titled "Fighting for Justice, From Leprosy to the Ballot Box" at 7 p.m. Thursday at Franklin College. The family secret had been ...

SOROK ISLAND, South Korea — Kang Sun Bong once considered this tiny island a “hell on earth,” a place where hospital workers beat the leprosy patients exiled here and forced them into harsh labor, ...

A.B. Shawky’s empathetic feature film follows a former leper through Egypt as he searches for the family who abandoned him. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...