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Category: Frontiers
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The Roots of Violence

Violence is the dominant theme of the daily news around the world. In Libya, Syria, Somalia, hundreds are dying and thousands are starving to death because of violence driven by ideological extremism. In the Philippines, a mini civil war is underway; mass killing is the preferred method of crushing dissent and subduing opposition and the struggle for freedom and equality. Here, Al Qaeda-linked groups’ battle for the ideal of Islamic “freedom” which can be more oppressive than what went before.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
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Rebecca Goes to Customs

Hunger is everywhere, we just don’t see it. Most of us are well fed, overfed, some to the point of death. Obesity and diabetes are killers and all because of junk food, bad food, chemical-treated processed food, instant food, TV food, wasted food, too much food. The developed world, throws away enough food, bad as it is, to feed millions of hungry people. We all need to eat fresh, non-processed, home-cooked chemical-free food, less meat, more vegetables and fruits. We will live healthier and longer. In the developing world the poor have little to eat.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation

Religion and Sustainable Development

In the past, the ascetic tradition of various religions seemed to be motivated by a denial of the value of the world. Often, salvation was presented as removing humans from the natural world, as if somehow matter itself was tainted, and could not, in any way, be associated with the world of the spirit. Manichaeism depicted the world as radically deficient and that even the human body is somehow evil. While many of the Fathers of the Church, including St. Augustine, opposed Manichaeism, they were not always enthusiastic about the natural world or even the human body.

Fr. Seán Mcdonagh, SSC | Environmentalist and Writer
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Another People Power Revolution

When I was visiting the hovels of the poor in the overcrowded slums of Manila, where we are setting up livelihood projects for the impoverished families of young teenagers we rescue from the horrific conditions of overcrowded disease infested jails, I met Mark and his hardworking mother. She has a junk collection business and the tiny hovel made of bits of broken plywood, flattened tin cans and plastic sheets was half filled with the collections they had made. Their treasure was plastic bottles, crushed aluminum cans, bits of plastic, old newspaper, all useless junk to you and me but the difference between life and death for the family.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation

Virtues Needed in a Culture of Dialogue

Excerpt from a paper delivered by the author at a gathering on the occasion of the Inter-Faith Council of Leaders’ (IFCL) 10th anniversary, promoted by Silsilah Dialogue Movemen

Randy David | Professor Emeritus In Sociology – University Of The Philippines
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The Struggle Against Corruption

No wonder that the new Philippine “Aquino administration” made anti-corruption its main drive against poverty. “If there is no corruption, there will be no poverty,” says President Noynoy Aquino. This was the slogan that won him the election. It’s so true and yet the solutions are still so hard to find and reform is almost impossible to achieve at this time with many corrupt politicians and their cronies still in government. They are entrenched and are opposing and thwarting the efforts of Aquino to fight corrupt practices.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
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What is a Happy Christmas?

It’s a real challenge for true Christians and people of faith to reclaim the meaning of Christmas and to make it a real event as Jesus would want it. It’s a time to rededicate ourselves to the ideals He exemplified and brought into the world. We need to find again that path to spiritual renewal and the courage for unselfish living. “I came to serve and not to be served;” “They who lose their lives will save it;” “What you do to the poorest of My family, you do to Me;” “I came to give My life as an offering for many,” He taught us.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
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A Gift for China and the West

The community of democratic activists and dissidents is overcome with joy at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the writer Liu Xiaobo. And although police have blacked out television coverage and gagged Liu’s wife, Xia Liu, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to this writer, is of great comfort to all those who had the courage to fight and sign together with him the Charter 08 document, that led to his sentence to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.”

Fr. Bernardo Cervellera, Pime | Director of Asianews
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Restoring Broken Lives

It’s no secret that guards, police and barangay officials beat, abuse, kick and humiliate Filipino youth when apprehended and later awaiting trial in jails and detention centers. Their testimonies and their medical examinations, when released, prove it. It happens in the UK also as the Observer newspaper recently exposed a government manual that taught guards how to beat, punch and gouge youth in privately-run UK detention centers.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
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Helping the Hungry Feed Themselves

My first encounter with death by starvation was in Olongapo City many years ago when I was called out to bless a dead child. I was led to the hovel made of cartons and plastic sheet where the three year old was about to be buried. I found a little girl in a cardboard box covered with a dress cut out of paper. It was all the emaciated mother could afford. The family hadn’t eaten in days. It led me to ask why and what could I do to prevent it.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
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