{"id":2038,"date":"2021-04-22T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2021-06-30T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:54:29","slug":"holy-child-sisters-recognized-at-mothers-day-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/holy-child-sisters-recognized-at-mothers-day-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Child Sisters Recognized at Mother&#8217;s Day Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">18 April, 2021<\/p>\n<p>By Sr. Mary Alexander<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/1-1024x768.jpeg\" width=\"283\" height=\"212\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 283px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 283\/212;\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>St. Joseph\u2019s Parish Mukasa, Gidan Mangoro Abuja had a beautiful Mother&#8217;s day celebration. \u00a0The event organized by the Catholic Women Organization ( C.W.O) was aimed at rising fund for digging a parish borehole. It was tagged: operation dig the borehole.<\/p>\n<p>Sr. Lena Nwaenyi, SHCJ works with the women as their spiritual adviser while Sr. Rose Okoli, SHCJ is a Marriage counselor in the Parish. Sr. Lena was given an award of excellence and equally recognized as a dedicated and hard-working woman. All the SHCJ sisters were equally recognized by the parish priest and given a golden medal each. Few other members of the \u00a0C.W.O were equally recognized at the event and honored with awards of excellence. We thank God for a very colorful and joyful\u00a0 Mother\u2019s day celebration and ask God\u2019s blessings on all women!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sr. Pauline Okoroafor speaks to the Catholic Women Organization of St. Felix Parish, Oghara, Delta State, Nigeria on the <\/strong><strong>Theme: \u201cEliminating Discrimination and Violence Against women<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Sr. Pauline Okoroafor, SHCJ<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/Sr.-Pauline-the-e-CWO-1-e1619115208734-640x388.jpeg\" width=\"331\" height=\"201\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 331px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 331\/201;\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>As part of the activities leading up to Mother\u2019s day tomorrow 18th April, 2021, the Catholic Women Organization of St. Felix Parish Oghara, Delta State in Warri Diocese, Nigeria on Thursday 15th April, 2021 had a Retreat on the Theme: <em>Let us Eliminate Discrimination and Violence against Women <\/em>led by Sr. Pauline Okoroafor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The women participated actively and shared deeply on their personal experiences of discrimination and violence against women. They were challenged to be united in the fight against discrimination and violence against women and also to intensify their prayers because it would not be easy. They were charged to begin the fight from home, in the the trianing they give to their male and female children as well as to report any incidence of discrimination or violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>They ended with the slogan &#8220;<em>if you see something, say something&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/african\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}