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Follow on all fronts as the movement around The Heart of Nuba gains momentum.
Tom Catena in Time Mag: Aid Must Go Where It Is Most Needed
The difficulties of running a hospital in a conflict zone, however, cannot be underestimated. The staples for running a hospital anywhere else in the world— electricity and running water— are a luxury to us. And, most types of foreign aid are nonexistent.
Dr. Tom is a finalist for the Aurora Prize
CARING FOR THOUSANDS IN A FORGOTTEN WAR As the sole doctor permanently based in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, home to 750,000 people, Dr. Tom Catena has worked around the clock to care for the citizens of this war-torn area. Amid ongoing civil war between the...
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The Heart of Nuba – Authentically Lived Christianity
NCAA: Ken Carlson–Goals, gumption and grit
Living and filming in such conditions were routinely fraught with peril for Carlson and his small production crew.
Video: iHeart radio
Interview with Deborah Kobylt
Screening: Redding, CA
The Heart of Nuba had a special screening at the Cascade Theatre in Redding, CA. The screening also included a performance by Katrina Carlson.
ICN Film Feature: The Heart of Nuba
At six o'clock each morning an American doctor makes his way through the dark to a simple chapel where he spends half an hour, rosary in hand, enlisting God's support for the day ahead. He is Dr Tom Catena, and he is the only surgeon in...
Screening: Paris City Hall
Screening was held for policymakers in the Auditorium de la Maire de Paris. Hosted by the MagkaSama Project, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch.
Screening: U.K Parliament
Screening was held for British Parliament at The Foundry. Hosted by Waging Peace and the Parliament.
Dr. Tom named Maria Shriver’s Architect of Change
“…the source of most of our conflicts is the idea that one person’s life is more valuable than someone else’s.”
Screening: US Congress
This Congressional screening was held at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center's Orientation Theater. Hosted on Capitol Hill by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
Global Human Rights Screenings Shine a Light on Sudan Genocide
The Heart of Nuba will be screened on all seven continents beginning this week in observance of the United Nations Genocide Prevention Day on December 9 and Human Rights Day on December 10. Select screenings will include a virtual reality...
Brown Alumni Magazine: A Life In War
“Never did I think… that he’d have the wherewithal to grab the camera out of his desk drawer when he heard incoming Sukhois and shoot some of the most harrowing footage of the film!”
Video: Tom’s Choice
An adult, a young adult and a child all have the same disease and you have enough medicine to save one. Who do you choose? It’s not a trick question.
Video: Water and Power
Greetings from the bush! Sharing this short clip with you in the hope that you get a kick out of it and...