

Ireland
Meteor Award for Fr. Shay Cullen
Fr. Shay Cullen, a regular contributor to World Mission, has been honored with the Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Meteor Ireland Music Awards. The founder of the PREDA Foundation received the prestigious statuette with a Celtic design, together with a donation of $140,000. Fr. Shay, nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, is a missionary priest from Dublin and a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban who has worked tirelessly in protecting women and children and human rights in the Philippines since 1969.
