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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.
The new councilors were announced as the Assumption Sisters conducted their 30th general chapter in France. —Jerome Aning