Pinay elected to Assumption sisters’ council
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MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday said a Filipina nun has been elected to the Religious of the Assumption’s general council, the highest governing body of the Paris-based congregation.
Sr. Lerma Victoria Pangantihon is one of the four new councilors tasked to assist the community’s superior general Rekha Chennattu of India.
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Pangantihon is the current superior of the Assumption Sisters’ Asia-Pacific Province, which has 17 communities in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan.
The other councilors are Sr. Sandra Elizabeth Duran Perez from the Central America-Cuba Province, Sr. Marthe Ntuyumve from the Rwanda-Chad Province and Sr. Françoise Martin from the Province of France.
Article continues after this advertisementThe new councilors were announced as the Assumption Sisters conducted their 30th general chapter in France. —Jerome Aning