Fr. Shay’s Articles
Is independence just a ghost?
July 15, 2014 ·
Just before Independence Day was celebrated on June 12, a group of newly enrolled children from a shelter excitedly set out on their first day to walk to school at Gala, Sacatihan, Pamatawan, Subic town, Zambales. The road up the hill would give them an easy walk to freedom through education—the great liberator. But then, […]
Read More...THE RESCUE
July 11, 2014 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen – The dilapidated house and few small cottages falling apart made up what was called S.C.O.T.S. Foundation for abandoned children. It was set up by Lilian May Thomson, 65, from Dunfermline, Scotland. According to her US passport she is named as Lilian May Zimmer. Her house is in a remote place at the end of a small, narrow valley in Subic, Philippines.
Read More...No pain for the poor no gain for the rich
July 8, 2014 ·
One of most important things for a happy, meaningful life is to have a goal, a positive purpose that is good for both others and ourselves. It can be helping in the community, volunteering in a Fair Trade shop, supporting a shelter for the homeless, or raising funds for a worthy cause.
Read More...FAIR TRADE – A TASTE OF JUSTICE
July 2, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen – I love to go to the villages of the Aeta indigenous people of Zambales where I have worked for the past 45 years. These original Filipino people have survived for millennia on the northern island of the tropical archipelago, as long as 30,000 years, some anthropologists say.
Read More...THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING THAT IS SLAVERY
June 26, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen – It is a cruel and hideous crime to capture and enslave an innocent human for any reason whatsoever. But to make money and indulge greed and avarice in forcing the poor and vulnerable through force and intimidation, threats and debts, to work for little or no payment, then that is slavery
Read More...FALSE FREEDOM AND INSATIABLE GREED
June 18, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen – Just before Independence Day last week, a group of newly enrolled children from a shelter excitedly set out on the first day to walk to school at Gala, Sacatihan, Pamatawan, Subic town, Zambales.
Read More...THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL
June 14, 2014 ·
There is one day of the year set aside to remind us of the horrible painful truth that there are millions of children around the world working in the fields, factories, brick kilns, construction sites and sex clubs. The clothes we wear, if made in a poor developing nation, are likely to have been made with some form of child labor.
Read More...SHOUTING INTO THE SILENCE
June 4, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen – One of most important things for a happy meaningful life is to have a goal, a positive purpose that does good for others and for ourselves. It can be helping in the community, volunteering in a Fair Trade shop, supporting in a shelter for the homeless, or raising funds for a worthy cause.
Read More...A REPLY TO SUMMARY EXECUTIONS by Fr. Shay Cullen
June 2, 2014 ·
The comments of Ramon Tulfo (Sat 24 May 14 ) writing in support of the summary executions, murder by death squads in Tagum City, of people judged guilty without evidence or trial is outrageous. They are marked for elimination, sentenced to the death penalty by assassination, at the whim of some government officials sending text message to kill.
Read More...SAVED FROM THE DEATH SQUAD – BY STREET CHILDREN
May 28, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen What should be a matter of outrage and great moral concern of every Filipino and decent human being is the very recent, well documented revelations by Human Rights Watch, alleging the actions of a death squad in Tagum city, Mindanao where hundreds have been murdered including street children as young as […]
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