Daughters of the Holy Spirit
We are an international Catholic religious congregation, moved by the Spirit of Jesus at work in the world.
As a spiritual family and with others, we seek to respond to the needs of the peoples among whom we live.
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KOZA Training Centre
During the 2024–2025 academic year, the"RENÉE BUREL" Training Centre in Koza, CAMEROON, welcomed 89 female learners (single mothers, displaced girls and vulnerable indigenous girls) from the districts of Far North Cameroon - Mayo-Moskota Koza. Although the cost of...
KOZA Training Centre
During the 2024–2025 academic year, the"RENÉE BUREL" Training Centre in Koza, CAMEROON, welcomed 89 female learners (single mothers, displaced girls and vulnerable indigenous girls) from the districts of Far North Cameroon - Mayo-Moskota Koza. Although the cost of training is affordable, economic, and social realities mean that not everyone can afford to pay this amount: fortunately, charitable...
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In Spiritual Family
News from the Spiritual Family
A time to stop and marvel
"In a noisy world, marked by the race to the clock, it is often difficult to take time to be together for free, and yet we need it so much ... It is here that we see how well God knows us and shows us a path to profound happiness: this necessarily involves withdrawal,...
Nigeria. Handover ceremony
On 27 June 2025, the Daughters of the Holy Spirit of the Vice-Province of Nigeria gathered at the Renée Burel Retreat Centre in Ilesa for the official handover ceremony from the former leadership team to the new team. After four years of Vice-Provincial service by...
Pilgrimage to the Sources in Taden
On 26 April, a group of Associates of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit travelled to Taden in Brittany, near Dinan, to follow in the footsteps of the ‘Charitable Spouses’ Claude Toussaint Marot (1675-1755) and Marguerite Picquet de la Motte (1681-1757), Count and...
Justice and solidarity
In connection with the charism of the congregation, find our main actions “Justice and solidarity”.
KOZA Training Centre
During the 2024–2025 academic year, the"RENÉE BUREL" Training Centre in Koza, CAMEROON, welcomed 89 female learners (single mothers, displaced girls and vulnerable indigenous girls) from the districts of Far North Cameroon - Mayo-Moskota Koza. Although the cost of...
Days of the African Child
‘Let the little children come to me, do not hinder them...’. Mark 10, 14From 12 to 15 June 2025, the 3rd Provincial Days of the African Child (JPEA) took place in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon's Far North region. Every two years, one of Cameroon's dioceses hosts...
Proud of their training…
On Saturday, June 7, 2025, the end-of-year ceremony was held at the Vocational Training Center for Youth and Women of the Catholic Mission of Touroua, in the Archdiocese of Garoua, in northern Cameroon. On that day, five “learners” received their training completion...
Into the World
The congregation listens to the “cry of the earth and the poor”
RENÉE BUREL Home: inauguration
‘Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain’, Psalm 127:1.On Thursday 19 June 2025, at the Vice-Provincial House in the town of Maroua, CAMEROON, in a joyful atmosphere of thanksgiving to the Lord, we officially inaugurated and opened our...
Presentation of the title of chieftainess
Despite the rains that poured on the morning of Saturday, June 7, 2025, the atmosphere in Ilogbo, Ogun State in Nigeria, was filled with excitement and reverence. The palace of His Royal Majesty, Oba Samuel Ojugbele, the Onilogbo of Ilogbo, was the venue for this...
Community and missionary experience
"During her novitiate, the novice experiences being sent on mission to another local community. She discovers in a concrete way what it means to consent to the real and humble conditions of the mission, the calls of the Spirit at the heart of this reality, and the...
Partnerships and projects
DHS Solidarity Projects
What we cannot do alone, we are able to do together. Thank you for being there.
DHS Solidarity Projects
DHS Solidarity Projects - 2025 “Whenever you did it to one of these little ones who are my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.” (Mt 25:40) The year 2024 has enriched us with the testimonies of various commitments, but it has also marked us with numerous trials and...
PERU
LATIN AMERICA News from the Huaura Community Center - Peru Thank you to our donors and to all the people of good will who do everything to help and support others. The money we had for food aid or the local canteen, to support women in their activities and the...
NIGERIA
Grant application for the purchase of ocular equipment for paediatric eye examinations at the Holy Spirit Clinic, Iree, Osun State. The Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Nigeria has been ministering in Iree and its suburbs for over 15 years. Their...
CAMEROON
Dormitory equipment project at the Catholic Mission’s Vocational Training Center for Youth and Women in Touroua. The Center for the professional formation of Youth and Women in Sainte Monique parish, Touroua, was created in 2001. It is a vocational establishment....
BURKINA FASO
Project to help internally displaced people. Over the years, Burkina Faso has been plagued by insecurity, with armed groups appearing throughout the country, especially in the East and North. These groups sow terror, attacking villages and burning everything in sight:...
In memory of …
LE BORGNE Anne-Marie
Year of religious profession: 1938 Place and year of birth: Limerzel (56), in 1919 Date and place of death: 7 July 2025 in Sainte-Anne d'Auray Communauté Maison de Retraite Ker-Anna/Lann Eol Age: 106 Date and place of funeral: Thursday 10 July at 2.30pm in Sainte-Anne...
JAFFREDOU Yvette
Name of religious: sister François-Pascal Year of religious profession: 1956 Age: 94 Born in Lambézellec (29) Date of death: 7 July 2025 Date and place of funeral: Thursday 10 July at 2.30pm, in Plestin-les-Grèves, Maison Notre-Dame, followed by burial in the...
LAURENT Louise
Name of religious sister: Sister Marie-Françoise du Sacré-Cœur Year of religious profession: 1951 Date and place of birth: born on 3 February 1931 in Elliant (29) Age: 94 Place of death: Sainte-Anne d'Auray, Communauté Maison de Retraite- Date and place of funeral:...