"Grant me a deeper understanding of what moves me, so that I may reject what draws me away from Christ, and love him and serve him more fully," the Pope's prayer said.

Concerns over Father Carlos Jaimes Guerrero's fate grew as a gruesome discovery of the bodies of eight Christian missionaries who disappeared without a trace in April sent shockwaves through the country.

La preocupación por su paradero aumentó tras el macabro descubrimiento de los cuerpos de ocho misioneros cristianos que desaparecieron sin dejar rastro en abril, lo que conmocionó al país.