Shining a light on pedophilia in the Philippines

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on Shining a light on pedophilia in the Philippines »

Fr Shay Cullen, Olongapo City Philippines August 1, 2014  The good news is that hundreds if not thousands of children will now be safe from abuse and molestation after some 660 British subjects were  arrested in the United  Kingdom for accessing images of children on the internet a few weeks ago. Many more suspects who […]

Cooperation with Aetas – Resistance, nature conservation, and fair trade

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on Cooperation with Aetas – Resistance, nature conservation, and fair trade »

by Moritz Weinbeer – August, 27th 2014 Nearly everywhere in the world indigenous people are already extinct or severely threatened by  other peoples.  Likewise, the native people of the Filipino archipelago, the Aeta, have been reduced  over the past centuries to  only a few thousand remaining individuals, mainly living in the  mountainous regions of Luzon, […]

THE CONFLICT IN GAZA

July 31st, 2014 | Comments Off on THE CONFLICT IN GAZA »

by Fr. Shay Cullen The death toll is at least 1,360 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, women and children, and hundreds more have been injured. 58 Israelis killed, 56 soldiers, 2 of them civilians. 16 Palestinians were killed when an Israeli shell hit a UN school where 3000 refugees were sheltering. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon […]

LIGHTING A CANDLE IN THE DARKNESS

July 23rd, 2014 | Comments Off on LIGHTING A CANDLE IN THE DARKNESS »

By Fr. Shay Cullen The good news is that hundreds, if not thousands of children will be protected from abuse and molestation by some of the 660 British subjects arrested for accessing unlawful images of children on the internet by a coordinated police action throughout the United Kingdom a few weeks ago. Many more suspects […]

EIGHT MONTHS AFTER TYPHOON HAIYAN

July 18th, 2014 | Comments Off on EIGHT MONTHS AFTER TYPHOON HAIYAN »

by Fr. Shay Cullen In the middle of the rubble and dirt of the aftermath of the most devastating typhoon to hit the Philippines last November 8, 2013, we found children still able to smile, standing as they did with ragged torn T-shirts and dirty faces and legs in the mud. They were covered in […]