US Military Bases Disguised as Philippine Bases are Here Again by Fr. Shay Cullen 20 April 2018 Last 17 April 2018, the first US-built military facility was begun with a groundbreaking ceremony by Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and the US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim. This is being done under an agreement signed…
The Planet is our Home by Fr. Shay Cullen April 5, 2018 It surrounds us, It is in every place we go, on the street, on the beach or the woods. We see it when we climb a mountain or go for a swim. It is there, evidence of our willful neglect or ingenious inventiveness.…
The Resurrection of Jessica by Fr. Shay Cullen 29 March 2018 Jessica was a lost child wandering the streets of a Philippine city, picked up by a human trafficker and brought to different places where she was sold as a commodity to foreign sex tourists to be abused. She didn’t know what was happening to…
The Profile of a Dictator by Fr. Shay Cullen 15 March 2018 History is full of tyrants and dictators. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Ze Dong are among the worst in past history but today dictatorship is increasingly on the rise. True democracy is in retreat as elected officials turn to dictatorship as a way to…
A Victory for Children’s Rights by Fr. Shay Cullen 9 March 2018 After a French court acquitted a 30-year old man of child rape after he had sexual relations with an 11-year old, the public was outraged and rightly so. The judge ruled that unless it could be proven that he had used force or…
Jailing the Child Abusers by Fr. Shay Cullen 16 February 2018 When put on trial in Pasay City, Metro Manila, child sex abusers can expect a conviction and a sentence of harsh life in prison without parole from Judge Tingaraan Guiling of Pasay City if the evidence warrants it. This week on 12 February, a…
Philippine Democracy under threat by Fr. Shay Cullen February 9, 2018 The young man, Jake 22 year old and single laughed when I asked him whom he voted for in the local elections for mayor. He said he abstained, but he went to the house of the mayor and received a payment all the same.…
A Big Victory for Exploited Children by Fr. Shay Cullen 25 January 2018 He was convicted after almost four and a half years of trial. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and got off lightly with time served. He is Mr. AB, a US national convicted in an Olongapo Court recently of child trafficking and…
Journalists risk death for the truth by Fr. Shay Cullen 18 January 2018 Journalists, writers, reporters, commentators will just have to curb their passion for speaking and exposing the truth if they want to continue to live. Too many end up a corpse in a cold dark morgue, silence their only companion. That is just…
The Voice of Women Say, “Time’s Up!” by Fr. Shay Cullen 4 January 2018 It is a great beginning to the New Year. Prominent women and men in Hollywood and London have launched a movement to end sexual harassment in the workplace and society. They aim to challenge every act of sexual harassment and abuse…
The Happy Christmas of Jenny -by Fr. Shay Cullen December 21, 2017 I write to all our readers, our friends and supporters, defenders of children, to wish you a Christmas that is filled with meaning, purpose and spiritual blessings. This is a time where we ought to renew our lives by looking back at the…
Christmas is a Time of Hope Fr. Shay Cullen 15 December 2017 Christmas is a time of year when we can hope for a real messiah, a moral leader to rise up and inspire us to live good, moral lives of integrity and mutually helping of each other and the poor- the great values brought…
Mass Murderer Convicted at the ICC Fr. Shay Cullen 29 November 2017 It was a spark of light from the darkness of human rights violations, horrific war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and ethnic cleansing that caused the suffering, torture, starvation and mass murder of thousands. That spark of light was the conviction and sentence…
Human Traffickers Supply Children to the Sex Business Fr.Shay Cullen http://www.preda.org The greatest pain for families is when the parents fight, argue, create a violent home, scold and beat the children and then separate. It has happened thousands of times and that is just what happened to mother and father of 12-year old Meanne. Her…
A Registry and Ban on Travelling Pedophiles by Law 12 October 2017 Shay Cullen Jerry Aspinio is a 13-year-old boy who was full of wonder and curiosity at the world as he grew up in Angeles City, Philippines. Although that is not his real name, imagine what he found when one day with some of…
The Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2017 Fr. Shay Cullen 5 October 2017 The German Bundestag Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development led by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights and Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Dr Bärbel Kofler, nominated last February the work done by the Preda Foundation, Father Shay Cullen and his team…
The Killing of Children by Fr. Shay Cullen The President is having a very successful campaign against suspected drug dealers and drug users. The killing of a 17-year old Grade 11 student, Kian Loyd delos Santos, by police in an anti-drug operation last week during which as many as 94 people were shot dead by…
Banning Travel of Pedophiles Saves Children from Abuse Fr. Shay Cullen 27 July 2016 It was a normal day in the life of 13-year old Jeremiah as he was leaving the school yard in Angeles City. He saw his classmates running to get candies and chocolates being handed out by a very overweight, cheerful balding…
Implementing Laws to Save Children Fr. Shay Cullen 4 June 2017 Convicted pedophiles in Australia on the National Child Offenders Register will be forbidden to travel abroad. Their passports will be cancelled, according to new proposed laws. Thousands of would-be child victims will be saved from horrific sexual abuse by this promised legislation. This is…
The Abuse of Children Online Fr. Shay Cullen 18 May 2017 The arrest last April 20, 2017 of US National David Timothy Deakin in Pampanga the Philippines shows the extent of the evil lurking in the online child abuse sex trade. Deakin was abusing children allegedly on live internet streaming and he tried to erase…
