And I got to know one of the lepers who was a Christian leader in his own village. His name was David. When he was away at the leprosy clinic, he learned how to read and came back with a Hausa Bible.

Lepers were often forced to live in leper colonies and not allowed to come close to towns and villages. Jesus did not like that the law separated someone from society because they were ‘unclean’.

Leprosy is easily cured these days with a small grab bag of drugs, especially when detected early, and about 95% of the population is naturally immune. The symptoms can be rough, though.

An Air Force chaplain went with some G.I.s on a sightseeing tour of the country around Manila. At a village called Tala, he saw a sight that horrified him. The people of Tala were all lepers.These, ...

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