Crete is a myth-stical island (see what I did there?) in Greece where gods were born, empires came and went, and lunch can last longer than a Minoan dynasty. It’s an island that refuses to […] ...

London, Dec. 15: Mr. Frank Oldrieve, who starts for West Africa on 6th January to form branches of the Empire Leprosy Relief Association in Nigeria, Gold Coast Colony and Sierra Leone, thereafter ...

Leprosy cases in Florida are increasing, with 36 cases reported so far this year compared to 20 in the previous year. Also known as Hansen's disease, leprosy is a bacterial infection that is curable ...

New Delhi, Nov. 30 (Jiji Press)--Yohei Sasakawa, honorary chair of Japan's Nippon Foundation, has visited a colony in New Delhi where people recovering from leprosy and their families live. Sasakawa, ...

Kalaupapa National Historic Park on Molokaʻi’s remote north shore now offers visitors a deeply personal tour of what was once an isolated quarantine zone. On Molokaʻi, Kalaupapa National Historical ...

For the first time in more than five years, visitors can now return to one of America’s least-visited national park sites in Hawaiʻi. Closed since March 2020, Kalaupapa National Historic Park is open ...

Culion Island in Palawan, once known as the world’s largest leper colony, now embraces a renewed identity rooted in history and hope. According to Oscar Oida’s report on "State of the Nation" on ...

(RNS) — Christian nationalism’s enemies have a strange tendency to muddle together into a single existential threat to the American way of life. But cartel narco-terrorists aren’t only in league with ...

After more than five years of closure, Hawaii’s Kalaupapa National Historical Park will reopen this month with a new patient-founded tour, tighter access rules, and lingering questions. ByWill McGough ...

HONOLULU — A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom are ...