Fr. Shay’s Articles
Racism: The Inheritance of Slavery
January 22, 2021 · By Shay Cullen
Racism: The Inheritance of Slavery Shay Cullen 23 January 2021 The most powerful and richest country on the planet is still arguably the poorest in moral values and social and racial equality. It is suffering a shock to its democratic system. The days when black people in the southern states of America had to use […]
Read More...Can President Duterte Make the ISPs Obey the Law?
January 15, 2021 · By Shay Cullen
Can President Duterte Make the ISPs Obey the Law? Shay Cullen 15 January 2021 The massive increase in child sexual abuse videos and images transmitted online over the internet passing through the servers of the Internet service providers (ISPs)- Globe Telecom and PLDT /Smart- has increased from 19,000 in 2019 to 47,937 in 2020 as […]
Read More...Discovering Human Dignity
January 8, 2021 ·
Discovering Human Dignity Shay Cullen 9 January 2021 When I see the newly arrived children- all victims of human right violations and sexual abuse- healing and recovering in our Preda Foundation home and striving to be “good,” to be a “better person”, somehow thinking they are “bad,” I and the Preda staff continuously tell them […]
Read More...The New Year of Hope and Freedom
January 1, 2021 · By Shay Cullen
The New Year of Hope and Freedom Shay Cullen 01 January 2021 The New Year is upon us and there is great, vibrant hope with the arrival of various vaccines that the deadly killer Covid-19 might be defeated in time. It may take a year or so if political leaders really lead and act with […]
Read More...The Christmas of Covid-19
December 25, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Christmas of Covid-19 Shay Cullen 24 December 2020 This Christmas season will be known as the unhappy Corona Christmas as so many will be separated from their families, unable to travel and be reunited. But it should not be an un-happy Christmas if we are healthy and safe from the infection. We have much […]
Read More...Christmas Newsletter for 2020
December 21, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Christmas Newsletter for 2020 Shay Cullen 19 December 2020 We are sharing with you some of the highlights of the work of Preda Foundation in 2020. We at Preda wish you all a blessed Christmas. Many children saved As many as a hundred children have been saved and recovered at the five Preda homes for […]
Read More...The Road to Extinction
December 11, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Road to Extinction Shay Cullen 11 December 2020 What a happy world it would be if all its living species lived in harmony- plants, animals and humans. It’s an utopian dream, some say, impossible in this world of modern urban living, say others. It does happen. In the last remaining forests of the Amazon, […]
Read More...The Empowerment of Women
December 4, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Empowerment of Women Shay Cullen 4 December 2020 The empowerment of women and girls is a most urgent need in today’s world where discrimination, violence and exploitation of women and girls, especially in the developing world, is tearing the heart out of society and family life causing human suffering, exclusion, sickness and death. Education […]
Read More...The Rape of Innocence
November 26, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
The Rape of Innocence Shay Cullen 27 November 2020 Child protection is one of the most urgent and serious responsibilities of parents, children, the community and government. We celebrate the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child this November. It establishes the right of every child to a life of peace and […]
Read More...Human Trafficking: A Scourge on Humanity
November 20, 2020 · By Shay Cullen
Human Trafficking: A Scourge on Humanity Shay Cullen 20 November 2020 Human trafficking and child sexual abuse is still alive and thriving in the Philippines. Online sexual abuse of children is everywhere, it seems, and more has to be done by the telecommunication corporations to stop it. That’s why this heinous crime against small children […]
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