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Tatort-Verein visits Preda Center
April 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The support agency Tatort-Verein from Cologne, came to visit also this March 2012. The famous Cologne based actor Klaus J. Behrendt in the popular TV series Tatort, playing the part of the detective commissioner alongside Dietmar Bar visited the Preda…
Read More...German Parliamentary Visit at Preda
April 17, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The jail rescue project of Preda for youth in conflict with the law is attracting the attention and the support of distinguished visitors from Germany. Father Shay Cullen is being invited to make a presentation at the German Parliament this 2012…
Read More...Inequality, poverty and our oligarchs
April 17, 2012 · , manilatimes.net
IT has been 44 years since the late Nobel Lauriate Gunnar Myrdal finished his monumental 10-year study Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. That tome helped re-arrange the thinking of world leaders about poverty and in particular poverty in Asia. It boosted government policymakers in rich and poor countries alike, and in [...]
Read More...Changing the Face of Loneliness
April 13, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
It was a happy day last week for 31 children and one adult suffering from cleft palate and cleft lip, when the expert surgical team of volunteer doctors with the Philippine Band of Mercy completed a marathon stretch of facial reconstruction operations at the San Marcelino hospital…
Read More...International Roma Day
April 8, 2012 · By Hillary Rodham Clinton
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I want to send best wishes to all Roma as they mark International Roma Day. Today we celebrate the history, impact and culture of Romani people. From music and art to science and literature, Romani people have contributed in ways large and small to the fabric of countless societies.
Read More...Can We Believe and Achieve the Resurrection?
April 4, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Christians have celebrated the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, we have recalled the dramatic events in that life of one who brought into the world the unconditional, self- sacrificing love that makes us so human and so divine. When we love others like the Good Samaritan, generous, self-giving to a stranger, to [...]
Read More...Melissa Woodward: A Sex Slave’s Story
April 3, 2012 · By Zsa Zsa Palagyi, The 700 Club, CBN.com
Melissa grew up with dreams of being a police officer and a mother, but a family member of hers had other plans. In the late 1980s, this individual groomed Melissa to be a sex slave in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. He physically abused and sexually molested her until the age of 12 and then began selling Melissa to other men.
Read More...Helping Others is Our Path to Happiness
March 29, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What brings out the crowds to cheer on a hero, a liberator, a Messiah like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the greatest of all, Jesus of Nazareth, and many more. All but one of the above was executed or assassinated and all were brutalized and jailed unjustly for their beliefs and mission. [...]
Read More...The Tampakan Mine has a High Potential for Loss of Life and High Environmental Damage if the Facilities fail
March 24, 2012 · By Working Group on Mining in the Philippines
Our working group have repeatedly warned Xstrata about the dangers of the Tampakan SMI mining project [1] and commented on the inadequate environmental studies but they have failed to listen. We are told that they have not even consulted the current Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. The result is that the proposed Tampakan mine [...]
Read More...How We Help End Hunger
March 23, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Hiking through the Zambales hills visiting the villages of the Aeta indigenous people is an exhilarating and yet saddening experience. I have been thinking about my recent visits to the villages of the aboriginal people that first settled the Philippine islands and survived…
Read More...Australian police smash child porn ring
March 23, 2012 · By AFP
SYDNEY — Australian police have smashed a child porn ring and arrested 14 men, including fathers, after hundreds of thousands of images and videos were seized, some depicting toddlers, they said Friday. Australian Federal Police raided more than a dozen properties across the country over the past week after a tip-off by Interpol, which linked [...]
Read More...Credit for the Poor
March 21, 2012 ·
Fr Seán Connaughton has done more than most missionaries to help Filipinos break out of poverty and become successful entrepreneurs. Fr Seán Connaughton SSC, or Fr Seán as he is fondly called by the KAZAMA Grameen Inc. (KGI) family, is a Columban priest from Ireland. He was assigned to the Philippines in 1962 to help build [...]
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