May, 2019
The Bahay Pagasa detention centers for children are worse than prisons says JJWC.
May 20, 2019 ·
The Bahay Pagasa detention centers for children are worse than prisons says JJWC Preda attends JJWC Summit in Manila. May 2019 The Juvenile Justice Welfare Council (JJWC) has rightly said that the Bahay Pagasa detention centers for children are worse than prisons after they made a comprehensive study and will soon release the report. […]
Read More...Misereor and Tatort-Strassen der Welt e.V humanitarian organizations support Filipino children
May 20, 2019 ·
Misereor and Tatort-Strassen der Welt e.V humanitarian organizations support Filipino children. 20 May 2019 Preda News In a letter addressed to the Senators of the Philippines two leading and well known organizations across Germany and the EU. Misereor is a church based organization in Aachen, and Tatort Foundation, in Cologne. They have appealed to the conscience […]
Read More...Poland’s Roman Catholic Church faces first abuse lawsuit
May 20, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A Polish man who was abused as a child by a priest is suing the country’s Roman Catholic Church – the first such civil case in the country. The man – who is only identified as 25-year-old Marcin K – is demanding 47,500 euros ($64,500; £39,550) in damages. The priest has been convicted and is […]
Read More...‘Tell No One’: Poland Is Pushed to Confront Abuse of Children by Priests
May 20, 2019 · By Marc Santora and Joanna Berendt for www.nytimes.com
WARSAW — Anna Misiewicz was just 7 years old when she was invited into the private chambers of her parish priest, in the small village of Topola in southwest Poland. She thought he wanted her to count church donations. Instead, she found herself alone with a predator, identified only as Father Jan A. He touched […]
Read More...The Curse of Sex Tourism Part 1
May 17, 2019 ·
The Curse of Sex Tourism Part 1 Fr. Shay Cullen 19 May 2019 The depravity of human nature reveals itself in the most shocking way as sex tourism. This phenomenon has become a government-supported and encouraged form of personal and national income generation in many countries that exploits and abuses millions of people around the […]
Read More...Lessons from WhatsApp hack: we are all victims of global spyware industry
May 17, 2019 · By Karlin Lillington for www.irishtimes.com
Users of Facebook’s communications app WhatsApp were advised this week to update their software, following the discovery that a previously unknown weakness could allow their devices to be hacked. Because of its use of encryption for calls and messaging, WhatsApp is widely promoted as a secure and privacy-protecting method of communication. It is also one […]
Read More...Volunteer spirit very much alive among young Filipinos
May 17, 2019 · By Bong Sarmiento and Marielle Lucenio, Manila for international.la-croix.com
Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting volunteers assist voters during the May 13 Philippine midterm elections at a polling center in Quezon City. (Photo by Jimmy Domingo) They used their own laptop computers and their own mobile phones to assist voters during this year’s midterm elections in the Philippines. They were not required to do so. It was not […]
Read More...Irish priest hailed as peacebroker by Philippine government
May 17, 2019 · By Ronan McGreevy for www.irishtimes.com
The Philippine government has paid tribute to a former missionary priest who was killed in a hit-and-run incident last weekend. Fr Michael Guckian (81) died when he was struck by a car while walking in Keadue, Co Roscommon, on Saturday night. The driver later presented himself to Carrick-on-Shannon Garda station. Fr Guckian’s funeral takes place on Thursday morning in Drumboylan, Co […]
Read More...Philippine Senators Receive Petition with Thousands of Signatures to Support Children Wrongfully Detained Behind Bars
May 16, 2019 ·
Senator Sherwin “Win” T. Gatchalian and Senator Ana Theresia “Risa” Navarro Hontiveros-Baraquel received a petition with the signatures of 5,612 German and Austrian supporters of children’s rights presented to them by Fr. Shay Cullen and Francis Bermido Jr., president and vice president of Preda Foundation respectively, on behalf of the World Shops. Preda Foundation frees and assists young children that are wrongly […]
Read More...Famous German Actors Defend Children’s Rights in the Philippines
May 16, 2019 ·
Famous German Actors Defend Children’s Rights in the Philippines The most popular and well-known television actors based in Cologne, Germany and viewed nationwide weekly for their anti-crime series have written to Philippine senators pleading with them not to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 12 years of age. This they said will make […]
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