The parents of Madeleine McCann have talked for the first time about the prospect of never seeing their daughter again as a search of a possible burial site.They will use their faith to see them through this ordeal.
Portuguese police announced that they have found no trace of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann on Friday, after they searched a deserted scrubland area cited in an anonymous letter.
The couple said they were relieved that the police had failed to find any trace of their daughter during the search of remote scrubland about nine miles from where she was abducted from her bed 44 days ago. About 10 police cars were parked in the area and officers walked around with dogs in the location that the letter indicated.
The search continues for Maddie, but thankfully under the hope that she is still alive. Kate and Gerry McCann have held onto their Catholic faith throughout their ordeal, regularly attending a local Catholic church as well as recently travelling to Rome to meet Pope Benedict XVI, who prayed for their daughter.
But Mr. McCann, a consultant cardiologist, admitted: "If we don't get Madeleine back alive and well, I am sure our faith will be severely tested. We haven’t dwelt on that, but I think that is what we will be left with. Our friends, our family, the Church have really rallied round. I think that’s the key thing for me,” he told The Tablet, a Catholic newspaper.
Mr. McCann added: "At the end of it, we will still have our faith and we will also have comfort that Madeleine will be looked after. We haven't dwelt on that but I think that is what we will be left with. "Our friends, our family, the Church have really rallied round. I think that's the key thing for me."
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