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

A simple answer to the first question might be the fact that the leper is not allowed in the camp. He comes to the edge of the camp and the priest goes out to meet him. However, that does not satisfy ...

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 ...

Why Hindu extremists must stop the mindless violence against Christians in India now In 2010 I visited The Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata to pay homage at Mother Teresa39s tomb Along the road towa ...

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, ...

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 ...

At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam, Pontifical Missions Society USA President Msgr. Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought Communion to people, and distributed food and sandals. (The ...

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 ...

R.E.M. have shared a newly restored video for “New Test Leper,” from the new, expanded edition of their 1996 album, New Adventures In Hi-Fi. You can check it out below. R.E.M. - New Test Leper ...