by the ELN leadership in an article "Una autocrítica por la muerte del Obispo Jaramillo" (a self criticism for the death of Bishop Jaramillo), the reasons for ordering his assassination included: 1. Allegations of his direct involvement in widespread corruption and mismanagement of social funds (Pascol), obtained by ELN through a revolutionary tax on the oil pipeline construction company, and subsequently managed by Jaramillo and 2. His overt support for a paramilitary group in Caño Jesús de Arauca, known as "Grupo Cívico Armado de Arauca" (Cruciagar) which has been held responsible for numerous decapitations, acid attacks and murders of local villagers, peasants, farmers and community activists, which Jaramillo hypocritically failed to condemn. In 2008 the Colombian government apprehended Carlos Marin Guarin who had ordered the bishop's killing due to Jaramillo's vocal opposition to the E.L.N. and its aims and his overt support for a local paramilitary group responsible for several murders, decapitations and acid attacks on local peasants, farmers, trade unionists and community activists. The E.L.N. later admitted after Jaramillo's death that he had been kidnapped so as to use him as a message-bearer to President Virgilio Barco Vargas to hear their demands. John Paul II – during the Great Jubilee in 2000 – celebrated an ecumenical service dedicated to the witnesses of faith who had been killed in hatred of their faith. Jaramillo was one prominent name mentioned during the service. Beatification The beatification process commenced under John Paul II on 7 July 2000 after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" (nothing against) to the cause and titled Jaramillo as a Servant of God. The diocesan phase of investigation opened not long after in Arauca and concluded its business on 29 June 2006 before all documentation was sent to the C.C.S. in Rome in boxes where the latter validated the process. The postulation sent the Positio dossier to the C.C.S. officials in 2015 for investigation though the cause almost came to a halt since it was uncertain whether Jaramillo was killed for religious or political reasons. But the cause managed to continue with theologians approving the dossier on 11 May 2017 and the C.C.S. following suit on 4 July 2017. Pope Francis approved the cause on 7 July 2017 and thus approved Jaramillo's beatification. Francis himself presided over the beatification during his papal visit to Colombia at an open-air Mass on 8 September