Fr. Shay’s Articles
Human Trafficking is an Intrinsic Evil and a Crime Against Humanity
May 6, 2015 ·
Human Trafficking is an Intrinsic Evil and a Crime Against Humanity Fr.Shay Cullen 17 April 2015 Washington.DC. Just call him Jose,or Joseph in English because in the bible story (Genesis 37:18-36) Joseph was sold into slavery by his own jealous brothers and taken to Egypt by the slavers. The small twelve-year old boy that I met […]
Read More...The Migrant Children of the Desert Crossing
May 4, 2015 ·
The Migrant Children of the Desert Crossing Fr. Shay Cullen El Paso, Texas. Just a few kilometers on the outskirts of El Paso on the US border with the Mexican City of Ciudad Juarez, I lean against the long wire mesh fence that keeps out the flood of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America […]
Read More...The Hunger and Thirst for Justice
April 15, 2015 ·
The Hunger and Thirst for Justice Fr. Shay Cullen 10 April 2015 There is a true and very important saying what we all need to listen and learn from; “There is no peace when there is no justice”. The truth of this is seen and felt by thousands of people around the world and people […]
Read More...The New Life We All Need
April 6, 2015 ·
We all may wonder why one person’s reputation, popularity and words could last so long a time. A great songwriter, a rock band or classical music can last hundreds of years. The music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi is more popular now than it was in their own lifetimes. The Rolling Stones and Bono are […]
Read More...Holy Week 2015: The Love That Can Change The World
March 31, 2015 ·
What brought about the shameful torture, humiliation and excruciating execution, as a criminal on a Roman cross is what we need to ask and answer everyday not just during Holy Week. Hundreds of thousands of true Christians around the world suffer persecution, torture and death these days because they are disciples of Jesus of Nazareth […]
Read More...A Small Town in Austria
March 20, 2015 ·
When the mayor of this seemingly clean and well-ordered town invited me during my lecture tour to a meeting with his town council in 2014, he said the town had problems and asked if I could help. At first he discussed Fair Trade and how his town could do more to support the sale of […]
Read More...Heinous sex crimes against Filipino babies
March 16, 2015 ·
IT must be one of the most heinous crimes of the century, with little exaggeration, and one which went undetected by Filipino police until Dutch Internet investigators found abhorrent and revolting child pornography of Filipino children being sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered on videos on the computer of a Dutch national. Police investigator Attorney Janet […]
Read More...Fair Trade and the Indigenous People
March 9, 2015 ·
The most recent discovery of a human fossil, a jawbone with four teeth in Ethiopia has amazed anthropologists because of its age. It strengthens the theory that the migration of the first humans out of Africa occurred about 1.5 million years ago. Some of them moved through Asia and across land bridges into South East […]
Read More...The Preda Philosophy and Methods of Empowering Youth
March 5, 2015 ·
The Preda philosophy and methods of empowering youth and developing the positive potential and value of youth is based on the recognition of the goodness in every human person. Children are born innocent and it is only as they grow up that they are corrupted by the adult world and imitate and learn from those […]
Read More...What is Fair Trade all about?
March 1, 2015 ·
Juan and Maria de la Costa are couple living with three children in the mountains of Zambales 140 kilometers north of Manila. They are subsistence farmers, struggling to survive on what they can grow. They have lived in poverty making a living from planting vegetables, gathering wild honey and harvesting mango fruits to sell in […]
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