Climate Change Tightens Grip in Philippines

Climate Change Tightens Grip in Philippines

The Philippines has been battered by devastating storms in recent weeks. We endure around 20 powerful typhoons a year and occasionally experience earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, writes Columban Missionary Fr Shay Cullen.  Recently, in Liloan, Cebu, several...
Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Columbans Interviewed for Missionaries Documentary

Since St Columba and St Columbanus Irish missionaries have followed the example of our ‘saints and scholars’ in taking their faith to every corner of the known world. At the peak of the Irish missionary movement, in the 1960s, over 6,000 Irish Catholic missionaries...
PREDA: Campaigning for Children for 50 Years

PREDA: Campaigning for Children for 50 Years

“It is not often that a charitable organisation gets the opportunity to celebrate 50 years of service to the Filipino people,” writes Columban Missionary Fr Shay Cullen, founder of the PREDA Foundation. This year is the golden anniversary of the founding...
Preda Offers a Safe Home to 90 Children

Preda Offers a Safe Home to 90 Children

For 50 years, the Preda Foundation has rescued, protected, healed and empowered abused and trafficked girls, saved innocent boys from unjust incarceration in jails, and given a new life through residential care services with therapy and education. Preda Founder Fr...