African Province - Society of the Holy Child Jesus

Welcome to the African Province!

We are a group of women religious with diverse cultural heritage asdressing, dancing, arts, language, etc. We are saying:

Zaare! E-kaabo! Bienvenue! Nnoo!

Akwaaba! Emedi! Ahinya owa laa!

Asor be song! Sanu de zuwa! Welcome!

In 1930, our first sisters from America and Europe arrived in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Today, we minister in three African countries: Chad, Ghana and Nigeria. We work in organic agriculture, education, leadership training, health services, pastoral work and religious formation.

In whatever we do, we honor the richness of our cultures while fulfilling our mission of "helping others believe that God lives and acts in them and in our world."

Alleluia! Rejoice & pray for our Sisters who have been accepted for Profession of Perpetual Vows in the Society in 2013. Click here for photos

Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus Celebrate Jubilee, Temporary, and Perpetual Vows.

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Click here for Nigeria.

Several Holy Child Sisters attended the keynote delivered by His Eminence, Peter Cardinal Turkson on Catholic Social Teaching and Global Poverty, on 22 March 2011 at Villanova University. Click here for photo.

First Year Novices: ClIck here for photos.

Some of our African Sisters during the 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Society in America. With them is the Society Leader, Sr. Veronica Openibo. Also in the picture are Sr. Nancy Bello, SHCJ American Province (middle) and Mrs. Juliet Nnenna Njoku (Extreme left), an Associate and a past student of St. Kizito's Community Secondary School, Duduguru, Nigeria.

Our Society Leader, Sr. Veronica Openibo and Veronica Ufomba brainstorming on an idea in the paper during the gathering.

Some of our African Sisters studying and working in the states from left to right, Margaret Odeh, a student at Rosemont College, Gifty Abane, a teacher in Washington Middle School, Gloria Okoh, a student at Rosemont College, Veronica Ufomba,a teacher in Washington Middle School and Mrs. Juliet Nnenna Njoku, an Associate and a past student of St. Kizito's Duduguru, Nigeria.