The bill provides for a Commissioner of Leprosy, who shall be a physician ... a square mile of the public domain is to be set aside for the colony of unfortunates. No lepers are to be admitted ...

Despite the ministry’s reassurances, hospital and parliamentary sources say that there have been efforts over the past two years to repurpose the colony, citing the declining leprosy infection ...

On May 10, the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with Hansen’s disease patients in the leper colony at Kalaupapa.

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Lepers were often forced to live in leper colonies and not allowed to come close to towns and villages. Jesus did not like that the law separated someone from society because they were ‘unclean’.