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...
Fr Shay and Preda Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Fr Shay and Preda Celebrate 50th Anniversary

For 50 years, the Preda Foundation has been a leading child rights organisation with a long successful history of rescuing, protecting, healing and empowering abused and trafficked girls, saving innocent boys from unjust incarceration in jails, and giving a new life...
The Power of the Innocent

The Power of the Innocent

A new law setting the age of consent at 16 years old has just been passed in the Philippines. Any sexual act with a minor 16 years and below will be statutory rape carrying a life sentence. Standing against child sexual abuse, campaigning for improved child protection...