Father Alcides Jiménez Chicangana was born to a humble peasant family on January 30, 1949, in a predominantly Indigenous region of the Department of Cauca, Colombia. Father Alcides was ordained a priest in 1978, after which he chose to serve a church in the department of Putumayo, which signified his commitment to a pastoral vision of prophetic peacemaking on behalf of human and ecological well-being. As Father Alcides dedicated his life and ministry to this place and its people, a key concern of his ministry was focused on fossil fuel extractivism and food sovereignty, which was threatened by monocrop agriculture, particularly intensive cultivation of coca. In the face of these harmful realities, Father Alcides preached that the Eucharistic altar could be found anywhere that one could recognize the presence of Christ. This extended beyond the four walls of the church to the forests, fields, other elements of the natural world and the people living in it. In the face of violence, Father Alcides promoted peace, not in passive resignation or silence, but in active peacebuilding that entailed denunciation of violence and exploitation, along with various forms of organizing for social and ecological transformation. His leadership and resistance to exploitation was a threat to the social and economic order of multinational corporations and both sides of the armed conflict in Colombia, especially those for whom coca cultivation was highly lucrative. On Friday, September 11, 1998, two gunmen entered the sanctuary of Our Lady of Carmen Parish and began to shoot at Father Alcides during the liturgy of the Eucharist. As Father Alcides fled to the patio in an attempt to escape, the gunmen followed, and there killed him with eighteen bullets. Father Alcides was forty-nine years old and is remembered as a pastor who planted seeds of justice and ecological well-being in the lives of his people.