Fr. Shay’s Articles
SKIN WHITENERS DAMAGE PEOPLE AND NATIONAL DIGNITY
August 2, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc Imagine the scene in a charity clinic where a teenager was brought threatening suicide. Barbara, 17 years old, was crying out in her anguish, beating her clenched fists on the table and screaming, “I can’t live with a face like this, I am better off dead, dead”. She wailed and […]
Read More...NEW LAWS NEEDED TO BLOCK CHILD PORN
July 29, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen When a German national child abuse suspect was arrested and jailed in Butuan city, Mindanao earlier this year, police found incriminating evidence in his laptop computer, of horrific photos of small Filipino boys as young as 8 years old being sexually abused by the suspect . Photos showed the children being made […]
Read More...THE YOUNG LEADERS OF TODAY ARE THE HOPE OF TOMORROW
July 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The incredible courage, bravery, and dedication of young people is what the world needs to inspire and lead us into the future. Malala Yousafzai is a striking example of the capability of the youth to give the good example where adults are failing. Her speech to the United Nations ignited the hope and […]
Read More...HUMAN TRAFFICKING – NOT ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES
July 11, 2013 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen. Stuttgart, Germany – Human trafficking and sex tourism is on the rise in Europe especially in prosperous Germany as well as the Philippines and South East Asia. It is on the rise in the UK and Ireland also. It is slavery under another guise, hiding behind the liberal laws of Germany and […]
Read More...THE SHAME OF SECRET JAILS FOR CHILD PRISONERS
July 5, 2013 ·
by Father Shay Cullen 7th July 2013 A few weeks ago, I visited yet again several child detention centers and police holding cells around Metro Manila with the Preda Foundation social workers. We found two small girls, 13 and 14 years of age behind bars looking out tearfully; and next to their cell was an adult […]
Read More...ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
June 28, 2013 ·
Zero Tolerance for Sexual Exploitation by Fr. Shay Cullen 27 June 2013 The young women, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by government officials stationed at Philippine embassies in the Middle East, were being interviewed by Philippine media. They had their heads and faces completely covered with black cloth and wore dark glasses to hide from […]
Read More...WHEN AUTHORITY IS PERVERSE, ABUSE IS RIFE.
June 21, 2013 ·
FR.SHAY CULLEN 19 June 2013 It’s all about power and fear. Several impoverished, abused, cheated and beaten Filipino female workers taking shelter in Middle Eastern Philippine embassies have been allegedly sexually assaulted and prostituted by some corrupt and depraved embassy officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Walden Bello, the sociologist turned Congressman […]
Read More...THE MISSION IS TO END POVERTY AND INJUSTICE
June 14, 2013 ·
by : Fr. Shay Cullen Muff, Co. Donegal near Derry, Ireland – A gathering of returned missionaries at the I.O.S.A.S Center (Island of Saints and Scholars) recalled the long tradition of Irish missionaries leaving families and friends and going to foreign lands for life to bring the Gospel message of God’s love and to build […]
Read More...THE G8 ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT SAYS COAL PLANTS ARE THE WORST OF ALL
June 7, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Dublin and Northern Ireland. The shocking revelation that environmental damages caused by economic activities like coal plant electrical generation and mining is costing the global economy as much as US$4.7 trillion a year. The report released last 15 April was commissioned by the Group of Eight economic powers and the United Nation’s Environmental Programme. […]
Read More...VISIT TO A MANGO HARVEST
May 30, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen A few weeks ago, I was in the mountain villages of Zambales talking to a group of small subsistence farmers from the Aeta indigenous people. The agriculturists from the Preda Fair Trade project were there to help them gather and weigh their wild mangos and Preda Fair Trade staff were ready to pay them 100% […]
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