April, 2016
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS AN EVIL THAT MUST BE STOPPED
April 14, 2016 · By Catholic News Service , Megan Cornwell for www.thetablet.co.uk
The Santa Marta Group met in New York last week to discuss ending the £100 billion human trafficking and slavery industry Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said human trafficking is an “evil crying out to heaven” that needs urgent action from the international community. “That there are over 20 million people callously held in modern slavery […]
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April 11, 2016 ·
The advocacy and promotion of human rights and anti- trafficking of children and women continues across Germany Father Shay Cullen is on a lecture tour with Martin Lang of DWP Fair Trade organization. He made a presentation and slide show in Kassel most recently . Martin Lang was his translator. He showed the Preda projects […]
Read More...Religious congregations protest and condemn massacre of farmers.
April 11, 2016 ·
We, consecrated men and women members of the Religious Discernment Group, strongly condemn the wicked, violent and unjust dispersal of the farmers and lumads in Kidapawan last March 30. Reeling from the effects of drought brought about by El Nino, these hungry farmers occupied the Kidapawan highway to demand from the government the immediate […]
Read More...Drought takes a terrible toll on poor Filipino farmers
April 11, 2016 ·
Worst dry spell in years is forcing rural folk to take desperate measures Swathes of corn stand withered on the parched rolling hills near the farming town of Arakan in the southern Philippines, while shallow cracks scar what were once fertile rice paddies. El Nino is wreaking havoc in agriculture-rich Cotabato province. Allan Salon, […]
Read More...North Cotabato gov slammed for threatening bishop
April 8, 2016 · By Voltaire Tupaz for www.rappler.com
Governor Emmylou Mendoza threatened to sue United Methodist Church bishop Ciriaco Francisco for ‘harboring’ farmers protesting in Kidapawan MANILA, Philippines – Church groups, including the United Methodist Church (UMC), condemned North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza for threatening a UMC bishop who accommodated farmers protesting in Kidapawan. In a letter Friday, April 1, Mendoza threatened to […]
Read More...Over 120 nations to sign climate deal in April: France
April 8, 2016 · By phys.org
More than 120 countries have said they are ready to sign the UN’s accord to fight global warming, French ecology minister Segolene Royal said Wednesday. Royal said the strength of support meant the climate deal clinched in Paris last year would likely be ratified in New York on April 22. Almost 200 governments reached an […]
Read More...A Home for the Refugees
April 8, 2016 ·
A Home for the Refugees Father Shay Cullen, mssc BERLIN, GERMANY. I met Alamid here in Germany and he told me he was a refugee from Syria. Their house was partly destroyed by the barrel bombs of Assad, the tyrannical Syrian dictator who is being supported by Russian forces and warplanes. Alamid is one of […]
Read More...iBBM Files Plunder Complaint Against Marcos for 205 Million Pesos in PDAF Funnelled to Napoles NGOs
April 8, 2016 ·
“So plunders the father, so plunders the son,” said iBalik Ang Bilyones ng Mamamayan (iBBM) spokesperson and primary complainant, Rafaela David. iBBM today filed a complaint/affidavit asking the Ombudsman to investigate the 205 million Pesos in PDAF that Vice Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is suspected of funneling to fake NGOs part of the […]
Read More...GERMAN GOVERNMENT GIVES ALL CLEAR TO PREDA ORGANIC MANGO.
April 4, 2016 ·
The great news this week is that the Preda mango puree produced in cooperation with the Aeta Indigenous people of the Zambales and Bataan mountain range is already certified Organic according to the strict European Union organic standards among some of the most strict in the world. The German Government organic certification […]
Read More...Fair Trade and German Generosity
April 1, 2016 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Fair Trade and German Generosity Fr. Shay Cullen 31 March 2016 Stuttgart,Germany. Here in Stuttgart the Annual Fair Trade Exhibition is underway and Philippine products are gaining a high profile with growing sales. This brings jobs and prosperity with fair payment to thousands of Filipinos. I have been invited as a guest speaker to the […]
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