Leprosy is a disease that many of us know about only from accounts in the Bible. But it still exists, and it was in the news recently-in connection with, of all things, armadillos! Leprosy is ...

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My 16 years at a rural hospital in India showed me what healing and restoration in Christian community look like. In 1994, my mother began working as a doctor at a rural hospital run by the Christian ...

Leprosy is very much a disease of the past, mentioned in the Bible, Quran, and countless medieval tomes. It is also very much a disease of the present, with more than 210,000 people diagnosed with the ...

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