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June 10, 2017

U.S. Catholic honoured as missionary, physician working in Sudan war zone

Dr. Tom Catena is pictured with his medical team in outside Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, Sudan, in 2013. Catena, a U.S. Catholic physician and missionary who serves in Sudan, has received the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.

WASHINGTON – Hidden in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, a war zone for the past few years, a U.S. Catholic missionary, Dr. Tom Catena, ministers to a village of 750,000 people as the single medical doctor in the area.

Published in International