Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.” ...

The island of Molokai is an unspoiled paradise — the last Hawaiian island that has held out against cruise ships and mass tourism — but for 100 years to more than 8,000 people, it was a prison. On the ...

Penikese Island is one of the Elizabeth Island chain that hangs like a string of jewels across Buzzard’s Bay west of Martha’s Vineyard. It has a distinction few places have ever challenged: From 1905 ...

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The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one — a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony. Kalawao County, which ...

Local celebrity Wayne Messmer will be visiting Saint Anne’s Catholic Community in Barrington on Friday, Feb. 20 to perform his one-man play portraying Saint Damien, who worked with lepers on a colony ...

In 2020, the last leper living in the Saint Charalambos colony in Larnaca died. She was 85 and had been there since the age of 14. Abandoned and neglected, the site fell into decay. Perhaps it was a ...

"A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, ‘Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean’" (Matthew 8:2).

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