The return of the US military to the Philippines Fr. Shay Cullen  27 January 2024 As soon as China became the second biggest economy in the world after the United States, it was inevitable that China would assert its power and challenge Western trade interests in Southeast Asia. When nations become rich, they tend to become arrogant, dominating, and greedy. So it was with the nations of the northern hemisphere. They became colonizers. They used military power to overwhelm, dominate, and exploit other poorer ...Continue Reading

We need more prosecutors and judges to give justice for children Fr. Shay Cullen  20 January 2024  This is a story of victory and triumph. A child, call her Audrey, not her real name, suddenly remembers how she was sexually assaulted by her uncle when she was seven years old. She buried the pain and memory deep inside. It was her secret. She was scared by his threats to kill her if she told. He thought he got away with it. One day, Audrey was in school when the teacher and students were discussing chi ...Continue Reading

Injustice and poverty causes child sexual abuse Fr. Shay Cullen  13 January 2024     The Philippines is a very rich country ruled by a rich elite of dynastic political families. Once they get into power, it is almost impossible to get them out and when they do fall from power, they have accumulated so many billions of dollars they have enough money to make a political comeback as we all know from recent history. This kind of faulty democracy where the hungry sell their votes for the candidate with ...Continue Reading

Children winning convictions of their rapists are real heroes Fr. Shay Cullen 5 January 2024 There is so much child abuse, human trafficking, injustice, oppression, poverty, inequality and violence in the world many can feel overwhelmed and sometimes hopeless. But when one has Christian faith and believes with conviction that justice, truth and goodness will overcome evil, we then have hope that change for the better will happen. Last year 2023, it did happen for Angeline and 19 more child-victims of abuse that ...Continue Reading

How the fossil fuel elites promote global warming Fr. Shay Cullen 30 December 2023  As we start into the year 2024 after COP28, there is a very troubling realization that the future stability of planet earth’s climate is in the control of very few powerful people. They are the few money moguls and politicians of nations that control the fossil fuel industry. They are so influential they were able to influence a change in the words of the final statement of the almost 200 international COP28 national delegat ...Continue Reading

Jesus of Nazareth says children are the most important of all Fr. Shay Cullen 22 December 2023 Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest man who ever lived, the one man that gives meaning and purpose and values to a more and more secular, materialistic life-style that has alienated children from their parents. Christmas is about children too and it will be a lonely time for some families. The children  live much of their childhood lives surfing on the internet, playing video gam ...Continue Reading

Christmas Newsletter 2023 from the Preda Foundation for children Dear friends and supporters, Christmas is really the time to celebrate children’s rights and to renew our commitment and determination to continue taking a stand for them, protecting, rescuing and saving them from harm and advocating protection for all vulnerable children. That’s the mission of Preda Foundation and we thank you for the help, support and donations that you have contributed to help many children. From the first days of his birth, Je ...Continue Reading

Pope Francis: Let us choose life! Let us choose the future!  Fr. Shay Cullen  15 December 2022  As the COP28 has come to an end, we recall that the goal of the global UN climate change conference was to declare a “phase out” of fossil fuel that powers the world’s economy and is destroying the climate and life on earth. The fossil fuel world industry forced a compromise in the wording and finally it was agreed to “transition away from fossil fuel.” It is historic. After 28 years of talking, this i ...Continue Reading

Israel wages all-out war against the people of Gaza Fr. Shay Cullen 8 December 2023 The massive on-going invasion by Israel of the Gaza Strip and its blockade of humanitarian aid to 2.2 million Palestinian civilians deprive them of the means of survival and force them to live in drastic subhuman conditions. The bombing has destroyed their homes and livelihoods in Northern Gaza in the past two months and they were ordered to evacuate to the South of Gaza where the bombing continues unabated. An estimated 1.5 mil ...Continue Reading

COP28: to eliminate fossil fuels and save the planet Fr. Shay Cullen 2 December 2023 Last Thursday, 30 November, over 160 world leaders opened the UN Climate Summit in Dubai called COP28. This is perhaps one of the most important of these annual events that bring the world together to avert a growing catastrophic disaster as ever increasing temperatures are heating up the planet. This change in the climate is causing growing disasters in every part of the globe. No nation is exempt from this crisis, everybody is ...Continue Reading