“His death is a stark reminder of the risks our Palestinian colleagues take every day to cover

“His death is a stark reminder of the risks our Palestinian colleagues take every day to cover the news in Gaza.”

A statement

By the Foreign Press Association, regarding the death of Fadel Shana, a 23-year-old TV cameraman with the Reuters news agency, who was among 20 Palestinians killed in fighting Wednesday.

“Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted.”

Pope Benedict XVI

Speaking on a day when all of the five Catholic justices on the U.S. Supreme Court approved lethal injection, and congressional representatives who support abortion rights said they planned to take Holy Communion at a papal Mass.