Dr Tom Catena has brought the beautiful but war-wounded culture of the Nuba Mountains to the attention of the world. A lay Catholic missionary from the United States, he stayed at his post in the Mother of Mercy Hospital when all the other expats left as fighting moved closer.
In May 2014 the government of Sudan brought its campaign of extermination to the very doors of the hospital. “I heard yelling and screaming,” the doctor recalls, “and I said: ‘Everybody down!’” The first bomb blew out all the windows of his house.
