When I first arrived in the Culion Leper Colony, I thought I’d been taken to a secret island peopled by freaks. The atrophied fingers on a still-beautiful woman made me curious, but the rotted ...

MANILA, Philippines - A visit to the Culion Leper Colony on Culion Island lends a bit of history to northern Palawan. The Leper Colony was established by the US government in order to rid leprosy ...

Did their children continue the legacy of their servanthood? Most importantly, was cure for leprosy ever found? Culion would always spring back to our consciousness every time the movie “Ben Hur ...

At Culion, Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at ...

The inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ...

Culion used to be a leprosarium starting in 1906 under the American regime. Although leprosy on the island had been contained in the 1980s, it was only in 2006 when it was declared a leprosy-free ...

in Photo: Equipment and facilities in Culion Leper Colony, once the biggest in the world. THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) Memory of the World ...

In December 1912, Guam Naval Gov. R.E. Coontz received orders to banish the CHamoru patients to the infamous Culion Island leper colony in the Philippines. As the lepers were forced to walk from ...

Ricky Lee wrote the script of "Culion," the 2019 Metro Manila Film Festival produced by iOptions Ventures Production. It was a dream project for the couple Peter and Gilie Sing, newbie producers ...