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...
Fr Shay and Preda Celebrate 50th Anniversary

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...
Opposing Violence Against Women and Children

Opposing Violence Against Women and Children

Fr Shay Cullen asks why is there a growing level of violence, physical and sexual, against women and children among males? Most people turn away from bad news especially during the coronavirus pandemic but it is causing greater levels of sexual abuse and violence...
Days of Light and Darkness in the Catholic Church

Days of Light and Darkness in the Catholic Church

These are days of darkness and light for many in the Catholic Church, writes Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. The horrific exposes of clerical sexual abuse against children around the world – in the United States, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Germany, Austria...
Greatest Depravity: 12-year-olds sold as ‘Baby Brides’

Greatest Depravity: 12-year-olds sold as ‘Baby Brides’

Why are Philippine senators and members of the House of Representatives delaying the completion and passing of vital historical laws that will protect children presently at risk of being victims of sexual abuse and sold as ‘baby brides’ for the sexual...