What did you do this summer? We did nothing special. Made a number of trips to the lake in a new family boat. Went here and there. But isn't that the way summers are supposed to be? Peaceful. So for us it was a restful summer, peaceful.

On Sunday, May 7, the day of Panama's presidential elections, Nicholas Van Kleef, a priest working in the David Diocese of Panama, was shot. Van Kleef was stopped by a soldier as he was driving through his parish inviting people to mass. The soldier got into the back of Van Kleefs car and ordered him to drive to the local garrison. En route, the soldier fired at point-blank range into Father Van Kleefs head.

A United Church of Christ in the Philippines fact-finding team, after investigating the double murder of a United Church of Christ minister and her husba…