The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...

the conservancy’s Molokai program director. “That’s when we decided we should start managing for the shearwaters because they were trying to establish a colony.” The conservancy faced ...

This is one of the earliest representations of the Philippines in moving images Stored in the British Film Institute archives this administrative reconnaissance film exhibits the Culion leper ...