The Patron of the Weija Leprosarium, Rev. Fr Andrew Campbell, has called for increased public education to address the persistent discrimination and stigmatisation of persons cured of leprosy in the c ...

Be made clean.” This is what confession is for. This article also appeared in print, under the headline “Healing the Leper,” in the January 30, 2012, issue.

It's one of more than 600 leper villages in China, most of which were created in the late 1950s and 1960s in mountainous areas. In 1963, when Abuluoha was settled, leprosy was considered incurable ...

Jesus Christ’s healing of the leper in the Gospel of Mark encapsulates the whole history of salvation, said Pope Benedict XVI in his Sunday Angelus address for Feb. 12.

Leper colony survivor from Fantome Island near Palm Island, Paddy Tanna. TREATING LEPROSY Though feared throughout much of history, leprosy is not a highly contagious disease and is curable.

The bone had begun to heal and grow before the man died, Rubini said. A leper warrior? Body No. 2, another man of 50 or 55, painted a similar forensic picture.

Up and down the Atlantic seaboard, then all across the U.S., the whispered tale was heard: "A leper has been found working in the Chesterfield cigarette factory in Richmond, Virginia." ...