Although the country has significantly reduced its leprosy rates (there are currently 500 active cases ... over the past two years to repurpose the colony, citing the declining leprosy infection ...

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 ...

Landry said: “Then we had the great privilege to take Jesus to those lepers in this colony who are incapable of getting to Mass,” recalling, “The first leper we visited, with great hunger ...

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’.