The atrocious Israel bombing with air to ground missiles on a refugee tent camp of displaced Palestinians near Rafah on the Gaza Strip killed at least 45 innocent women, children and men, and seriously wounded hundreds more. It ignited fires and destroyed the camp where thousands of people had fled to
June 6, 2024
The sad reality of the beautiful scenic Philippines and its kind and friendly people is that too many live in man-made poverty. If you have survived and overcome poverty and made it to a happier life, you will understand the story of Nick. If you are well off, thank your parents
May 28, 2024
There is great encouragement and inspiration in the true-life stories of the brave Filipino children that have fought back against abusers and made them answer for their crimes against them. Hundreds of children in the Preda children’s homes have been healed and found justice by winning convictions against their rapists and human traffickers.
May 14, 2024
It was a shocking and painful “no” vote by the United States to veto a draft declaration at the United Nations (UN) Security Council recognizing Palestine as a full member of the United Nations. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the U.S. veto and said it was “unfair, unethical, and unjustified.” Twelve
April 25, 2024
By Fr. Shay Cullen When you see the new skyways, highways and other expanding infrastructure in the Philippines, look to Japan as the source of many loans that helped build them. The Philippines’ foreign debt is at a record $125.4 billion as of last December. There is interest to be paid on that, and most
April 17, 2024
The Philippines is a very rich country ruled by a rich elite of dynastic political families. Once they get into power, it is almost impossible to get them out and when they do fall from power, they have accumulated so many billions of dollars they have enough money to make a
January 18, 2024
There is so much child abuse, human trafficking, injustice, oppression, poverty, inequality and violence in the world many can feel overwhelmed and sometimes hopeless. But when one has Christian faith and believes with conviction that justice, truth and goodness will overcome evil, we then have hope that change for the better
January 9, 2024
As we start into the year 2024 after COP28, there is a very troubling realization that the future stability of planet earth’s climate is in the control of very few powerful people. They are the few money moguls and politicians of nations that control the fossil fuel industry. They are so
January 5, 2024
As the COP28 has come to an end, we recall that the goal of the global UN climate change conference was to declare a “phase out” of fossil fuel that powers the world’s economy and is destroying the climate and life on earth. The fossil fuel world industry forced a compromise
December 19, 2023
By Fr. Shay Cullen The massive on-going invasion by Israel of the Gaza Strip and its blockade of humanitarian aid to 2.2 million Palestinian civilians deprive them of the means of survival and force them to live in drastic subhuman conditions. The bombing has destroyed their homes and livelihoods in Northern Gaza in the past
December 11, 2023
By Fr. Shay Cullen Last Thursday, 30 November, over 160 world leaders opened the UN Climate Summit in Dubai called COP28. This is perhaps one of the most important of these annual events that bring the world together to avert a growing catastrophic disaster as ever increasing temperatures are heating up the planet. This change
December 4, 2023
By Fr. Shay Cullen If you want to know about a fearless and outspoken defender of human dignity and rights, you have to know about the life of a man known as Columban. He was a true Christian, an Irishman who dedicated his life to the service of others. He was a missionary, a fiery
November 30, 2023