Syria – choosing the lesser evil

September 11th, 2014 | Comments Off on Syria – choosing the lesser evil »

September 7, 2013 10:47 pm The attention of the international news media is focused on what the United States will do to prevent the Assad regime from using abhorrent chemical weapons again. The US Senate has given the go-signal to President Obama. The alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that Assad and his followers […]

“What are you willing to die for”

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on “What are you willing to die for” »

Fr. Shay Cullen “What are you willing to die for “, It was a very challenging question that Pope Francis presented to the thousands of young people gathered for the beatification of the 130 martyrs in Korea last week. And it is also challenging for all of us who claim to be Catholics and Christians. […]

Solidarity for Philippine Fair Trade

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on Solidarity for Philippine Fair Trade »

Shay Cullen Mssc. Fairness and justice is what the  poor and the oppressed need from those elected to protect and serve them. When the people are in greatest need and government officials turn away then the people have been betrayed ,abandoned and left without help. This is what I experience everyday in our  struggle to […]

Shining a light on pedophilia in the Philippines

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on Shining a light on pedophilia in the Philippines »

Fr Shay Cullen, Olongapo City Philippines August 1, 2014  The good news is that hundreds if not thousands of children will now be safe from abuse and molestation after some 660 British subjects were  arrested in the United  Kingdom for accessing images of children on the internet a few weeks ago. Many more suspects who […]

Cooperation with Aetas – Resistance, nature conservation, and fair trade

August 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on Cooperation with Aetas – Resistance, nature conservation, and fair trade »

by Moritz Weinbeer – August, 27th 2014 Nearly everywhere in the world indigenous people are already extinct or severely threatened by  other peoples.  Likewise, the native people of the Filipino archipelago, the Aeta, have been reduced  over the past centuries to  only a few thousand remaining individuals, mainly living in the  mountainous regions of Luzon, […]