Egypt is one of the few countries where leprosy persists. But with effective treatment methods and cases declining, some say ...

The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive ...

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’.

This is one of the earliest representations of the Philippines in moving images Stored in the British Film Institute archives this administrative reconnaissance film exhibits the Culion leper ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...