Feb 24, 2026 | Loving the Leper
Compassion in Asia’s Leprosy Colonies It all begins with white spots on your skin. Surely it can’t be leprosy. In a matter of weeks, you go from a normal, happy life to being one of the most despised, rejected people on earth—a leper. Your landlord evicts you, your...
Oct 21, 2025 | Loving the Leper
What goes through your mind when you think of leprosy? Deformed feet and fingers? A dreaded disease? Or maybe you think of Jesus compassionately telling a leper, “Be thou clean.” Today in South Asia lepers still exist and are outcasts of society just as they were in...
Jan 14, 2025 | Loving the Leper
In Bible times, lepers were considered outcasts and untouchables, forced to live outside towns and cities. When a leper approached Jesus, begging for healing, Jesus broke an unthinkable barrier by touching his diseased skin and saying, “Be cleansed” (Mark 1:40-42). In...
