On May 10, the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with ...

Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? — Luke 17:18 ...

At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam, Landry celebrated Mass, brought Communion to people, and distributed food and sandals, working with St. Joseph’s Mission Charity. In one ...

Landry said: “Then we had the great privilege to take Jesus to those lepers in this colony who are incapable of getting to Mass,” recalling, “The first leper we visited, with great hunger ...

"I was told I had a virus with no cure and between three and nine months to live." HIV activist Jonathan Blake believes he ...

Metallica has been playing and touring for more than 40 years and is now in the middle of massive tour where most cities get two no-repeat shows. Here's a look at night one in Nashville.

After Rachel Dawes saves the little boy (played by Jack Gleeson, who would grow up to play King Joffrey on Game of Thrones) ...

Ms. Mohamed’s assertion isn’t just inaccurate—but false. Next, Ms. Mohamed builds upon this falsehood to water down the OFAC sanctions-labeling them ...

But that doesn’t adequately define the disease of a metzora, known in Hebrew as tzaraat. Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz,the 16th ...

To aid the push, one MinRes veteran has taken it into his own hands. Sources tell us that Bob Gavranich has recently been on ...

It was originally founded as a leper colony in 1934 away from residential areas, but the city has expanded to surround it. ‘Stigma has diminished’ Perceptions of the disease are only slowly evolving, ...

Rabbi Yosei ben Zimra (Arakhin 15b) connects lashon hara to tzara’at, a spiritual affliction sometimes mistranslated as ...