Father Shay Cullen (born 27 March 1943) is an Irish missionary priest and the founder of the

PREDA Foundation The People's Recovery Empowerment Development Assistance Foundation, commonly referred to as the PREDA Foundation or PREDA, is a charitable organization that was founded in Olongapo City, Philippines in 1974. Its purposes include the promotion an ...

. He is a member of the Columbans, an Irish order founded in honour of and named after St. Columba (St. Columcille), the 6th. Centuary Irish monk who founded the famous Iona mother house monastery on Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland Missionary Society of St. Columban. He was educated near his home at Harold's Boys and the Presentation Brothers in Glasthule, and CBC Monkstown Park. He helped found PREDA in 1974 along with Alex Corpus Hermoso and Merly Ramirez. This small non-profit organisation has a number of purposes, including the promotion and protection of the human rights of the Filipino people, especially women and children. Cullen is a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban. The Preda Foundation and Cullen were awarded the Human Rights Award from the City of Weimar in 2000. Preda cooperates closely with international legal tribunals, Interpol and the UN Commission on Human Rights. In 2017, Cullen was awarded with the Martin Buber plaque at the Euriade, the international festival for dialogue.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Shay Living people Irish humanitarians 1943 births 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Missionary Society of St. Columban People educated at C.B.C. Monkstown 21st-century Filipino Roman Catholic priests