But when Monsignor Roger Landry — director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA — visited the colony this week, he said it was an honor. At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam ...

At a leper colony in the Kon Tum area in Vietnam, Pontifical Missions Society USA President Msgr. Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought Communion to people, and distributed food and sandals. (The ...

In 1846 the island was turned into a leper colony. From 1961 to 1991, a maximum-security prison here held enemies of apartheid. In 1997, three years after apartheid fell, the prison was turned ...