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...
Why so few convictions for human trafficking?

Why so few convictions for human trafficking?

Approximately 45.8 million people are caught in the trap of modern slavery around the world, including 10 million children. Yet traffickers continue to operate with impunity, warns Fr Shay Cullen. The recruitment and sale of humans is an age-old crime against the...
How to End Child Labour

How to End Child Labour

It was a massive international solidarity march in 1999 along the streets of Geneva, recalls Columban Fr Shay Cullen. Thousands of children and supporters from all over Europe and Asia were there to encourage and support the approval and signing by the world’s nations...