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Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, examines a patient during rounds at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Pope Francis established an emergency fund to help communities in the Catholic Church's mission territories affected by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. (CNS/Paul Jeffrey)