"The National University of Colombia held a tribute in Bogota on Saturday to priest, sociologist and activist Camilo Torres, whose remains it received days earlier, as part of commemorations marking 60 years since his death as a National Liberation Army (ELN) member. Footage shows mourners attending mass for the burial of Torres's remains, which were placed in a container and accompanied by candles and photographs of the priest. The event was held in the UNAL chapel, after the Unit for the Search for Persons Deemed Disappeared (UBDP) handed over the priest's remains in mid-month in an intimate and reserved act to the searcher, Father Javier Giraldo. "We have an important mission: to rekindle that strong flame that motivated Camilo to take to the streets, to rekindle that strong flame that motivated Camilo to show the revolution of love and to always act with conviction," said one of the priests who officiated the mass. "Camilo is an absolutely important figure in the history of this country because of the contributions he made to building a faith committed to change and transformation," stressed Carlos Medina Gallegos, a university professor. Father Camilo Torres died in combat on February 15, 1966, while fighting as a member of the ELN. His remains went missing for nearly six decades until investigations launched in 2019 led to their identification. The case advanced in June 2024 when the Search Unit for Missing Persons recovered an urn in the military pavilion of the Campo Hermoso cemetery in Bucaramanga, which contained genetic material from the priest, as confirmed in early January 2026. The figure of Camilo Torres is important as a forerunner of liberation theology in Latin America, as he united Christian faith with social struggle against poverty and oppression through his concept of 'effective love', a concrete and transformative action to combat social injustice."