Topic: Child Abuse
US arrests 190 in child pornography crackdown
June 9, 2012 · , BBC News
Police have arrested 190 people in a major US crackdown on images showing child sex abuse, officials say. The month-long “Operation Orion” also resulted in 18 children being rescued, federal agents said. Arrests were made mostly in the US but also took place in countries including Spain, Argentina, the UK and the Philippines. The official […]
Read More...More fun in the Philippines?
June 7, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Sex tourism is a world wide reality and those who deny it are living far from reality. In the Philippines an estimated 60,000 commercially sexually exploited children are suffering abuse and lost childhoods according to a UNICEF estimate and millions more worldwide. There are stringent laws against it that are not being enforced.
Read More...The Walk to Freedom and Dignity
April 19, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The day he walked to freedom was a happy day in the life of fourteen-year-old Miguel. For months he had been detained in the Parañaque jail, accused of stealing a pair of flip-flops, worth no more than 50 cents. He was, at first locked in an overcrowded cell that was a living hell of squashed […]
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...Special SBS report: Child sex tourism in the Philippines
March 3, 2012 · By Katrina Yu, diversitydiaries.com
The opening of the Clark airbase and Subic Bay naval base just three hours north of the capital Manila created the designated ‘sex hubs’ of Angeles and Olongapo City that exist today.
Read More...Clerical Abuse of Children Must Be Rooted Out
March 1, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The conference recently held at the Vatican’s Gregorian University brought together cardinals, bishops, priests from over 100 countries and the heads of thirty-three religious orders to tackle the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests.
Read More...Preda Newsletter February 2012
February 24, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen, Preda Staff
Read the stories of the children you are helping to save and news about the great programmes of Preda, how you can save more and do good work to make this a better, happier, and safer world for abused and exploited children. – Fr. Shay Cullen, founder.
Read More...Catholic archbishop urges new anti-abuse rules in Asia
February 9, 2012 · , Agence France-Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church in Asia has a “pressing need” for rules against child abuse by priests as the issue has been hidden by “a culture of shame,” the archbishop of Manila said on Thursday. “There is a pressing need to formulate national pastoral guidelines for handling such cases,” Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle […]
Read More...Vatican prosecutor warns on Asia child abuse problem
February 6, 2012 · By Dario Thuburn, Agence France Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s top anti-abuse prosecutor has warned that the Catholic Church in Asia is falling behind in the fight against pedophilia due to cultural differences over what constitutes child abuse. “The problem is very accentuated in Asia,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna told reporters
Read More...Irish couples return home from Mexico after child adoption nightmare
January 22, 2012 · By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral.com
The Irish couples innocently caught up in an adoption scandal in Mexico have returned home – heartbroken, shaken and childless. The Sunday Independent reports that the 11 couples are now back in Ireland after police smashed the child trafficking operation in Guadalajara. Legal representatives of the prospective parents have assured the Independent that their clients […]
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