At a leper colony in Vietnam, Pontifical Mission Societies USA President Monsignor Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought ...

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 striking ...

Emotional testimony from the far corners of the world as the Pontifical Missions Society brings the Eucharist to those most ...

TODAY the Church honours St Damien of Molokai, a selfless priest who served those with Hansen’s disease or leprosy in Hawaii. The Belgian priest sacrificed his life and health to become a spiritual ...

The regime of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo all but erased Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo’s legacy after she died.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has .

Europe is riddled with eerie ghost towns, from depopulated military and mining towns and drowned villages to ancient enclaves ...

The comedian, 41, announced that she had been diagnosed with a cancerous mole on her arm last week, after having another melanoma when she was younger.

Before it was a TB hospital, Lakka was a leprosy isolation facility—and it felt like one ... and her chest X-ray revealed hardly any healthy lung tissue at all. She was five feet, three inches tall, ...

His face, hands, and feet bear the visible marks of the disease, leaving him partially disabled. A 70-year-old woman from Chaurpati Rural Municipality has faced a similar ordeal. Symptoms of leprosy ...