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Q: ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Slain U.S. journalist James Foley was living his faith by bringing images to the world of people suffering from war and oppressive regimes, a Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday at a Mass in his honor. 
  
 Irene Harvey reaches over Barbara Bush to light her candle during a candlelight vigil for James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Foley, a freelance journalist, was killed... (Associated Press) 
  
 Bishop Peter Libasci speaks during a special Mass for slain journalist James Foley at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic church in Foley's hometown of Rochester, N.H., Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Foley was... (Associated Press) 
  
 A woman holds a candle during a vigil for James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Several hundred people attended and paid tribute to the freelance American journalist... (Associated Press) 
  
 Mourners pack Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic church during a special Mass for slain journalist James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Foley was kidnapped on Thanksgiving... (Associated Press) 
  
 Mourners pack Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic church during a special Mass for slain journalist James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, N.H., Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Foley was kidnapped on Thanksgiving... (Associated Press) 
  
 Bishop Peter Libasci said even after Foley was captured for the first time in Libya in 2011, he "went back again that we might open our eyes." 
  
 The Mass was attended by Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, and hundreds of others in their hometown of Rochester, New Hampshire. Afterward, Libasci read aloud a letter from the Vatican extending the condolences of Pope Francis. 
  
 "Thank you for loving Jim," Diane Foley told the crowd after the Mass. 
  
 The crowd filled every pew and people stood three deep at the back of the church and along both sides of it. Gov. Maggie Hassan, along with U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, attended the Mass. 
  
 Foley was kidnapped on Thanksgiving Day 2012 while covering the Syrian uprising. The Islamic State group posted a Web video Tuesday showing his killing and said it was in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq. 
  
 Libasci invoked the prayer of St. Francis, which begins, "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace," to implore the gathered not to hate but to heal. 
  
 "It is in giving that we receive," he recited. "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. To these words, I think we can say, 'Yes, I wish we could do that.' It is not beyond our capability. It is not impossible. Our Lord lived it. Our most Blessed Mother lived it. Many saints have lived it. James lived it." 
  
 In a packed Our Lady of the Holy Rosary church, the bishop frequently addressed Foley's parents and stressed their son's connection to family. He also prayed for another captive journalist, Steven Sotloff, and all captives. 
  
 "Jim went back again that we might open our eyes," Libasci said. "That we might indeed know how precious is this gift. May almighty God grant peace to James and to all our fragile world." 
  
 Libasci said after the Mass that people shouldn't think of vengeance. 
  
 "Look at what it's done already," he said. "Look at the heartbreak." 
  
 A funeral for Foley will be Oct. 18, what would have been his 41st birthday. 
  
 Foley's parents on Sunday released a letter that they say their son wrote while in captivity, which he asked an unidentified fellow hostage who was about to be freed to memorize and recount to his family so the letter would not be confiscated by his captors. 
  
 In the letter, posted on a Facebook page called "Find James Foley," Foley described being held with 17 other hostages and passing time by discussing movies, sports and trivia and playing games made up of scraps found in their jail cell. He said the hostages were fed daily and given tea and occasionally coffee. 
  
 Also Sunday, the U.S. government said Peter Theo Curtis of Massachusetts, a journalist who was held hostage for about two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria, was released. White House national security adviser Susan Rice said Curtis, who wrote under the byline Theo Padnos, is now safe outside of Syria. 
  
 At a vigil Saturday night in Rochester, about 200 people gathered to show support for the Foley family. 
  
 "We are honored that you care and love Jim. We are honored that you recognized the sacrifices he made," John Foley said then. "He loved the Syrian people. He was devoted to telling their story and doing whatever he could to help their fight." 
  
 Speakers praised Foley's determination to report on the Syrian people uprooted by conflict. 
  
 "Tonight we want to honor freedom and love: the freedom that James so vehemently believed that all people deserved," said Nadia Alawa, founder of NuDay Syria, a Massachusetts-based organization working to ease the pain and loss in Syria. 
  
 The world's largest bloc of Islamic nations denounced Foley's "heinous" killing and reiterated its support for international efforts to confront the Islamic State fighters. 
  
 Iyad Madani, chief of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, said in a statement Saturday that the actions of the Islamic State group have nothing to do with the values of Islam or his organization's founding principles of tolerance and co-existence. ||||| John and Diane Foley greet people following a mass in remembrance of their son James Foley. Getty Images 
  
 ROCHESTER, N.H.—For nearly two years, this community in New Hampshire's seacoast region held on to hope. They tied yellow ribbons around trees and gathered for prayer vigils. 
  
 On Sunday, however, hundreds of people descended on Our Lady of the Holy Rosary parish with a new, painful focus: to remember James Foley, the U.S. journalist and New Hampshire native who was killed last week by extremists in the Middle East after being held captive for nearly two years. 
  
 More than 900 people packed the aisles and pews and gave Mr. Foley's parents, John and Diane—who worship at the church—a standing ovation after the couple expressed their gratitude for the support. A telegram they received last week from the pope was read. 
  
 Tears were shed by many people who said they never met Mr. Foley or his family but who were inspired by him and said he showed courage in venturing into war-torn regions to tell the stories of the oppressed. Claire Carll, a retired real-estate broker from Palm Springs, Calif., who happened to be in New Hampshire, held a small American flag as she approached the church. Sandra Harrington was moved to tears as she sat by a circle of petunias and prayed the Rosary outside before Mass. 
  
 "In my eyes, he was a disciple of Christ," said Ms. Harrington, who is 68, and had driven about an hour from the Manchester area. "He brought out light into the world and he brought out truth, as Jesus did." 
  
 President Barack Obama on Wednesday confirmed the death of Mr. Foley, a 40-year-old journalist from New Hampshire and the eldest of five siblings. He disappeared in northern Syria on Nov. 22, 2012, while heading to the Turkish border on his latest report from the rebel-controlled territories. 
  
 Parishioners waited to greet the family of James Foley after a mass in Rochester, N.H., on Sunday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 
  
 His death, depicted Tuesday in a grisly decapitation video released by Islamic State militants, followed an August 12 email published by GlobalPost, an online news site where Mr. Foley worked as a freelancer. The email from Islamic State said the group would kill Mr. Foley as retribution for U.S. airstrikes against militants in Iraq. 
  
 Mr. Foley's death wasn't in vain, in part because "the horrific way Jim was butchered" has sparked a new national conversation about the threat the Islamic State poses not only to Iraq and Syria but also to the U.S., Philip Balboni, chief executive of GlobalPost, told reporters outside the church on Sunday. 
  
 The killing has also raised questions about the U.S. prohibition against negotiating with terrorists. In an email to the Foley family in November 2013, the captors demanded $123 million. Instead, until last week, the family and GlobalPost were trying to raise $5 million, hoping that amount could secure Mr. Foley's release. 
  
 Mr. Foley's younger brother expressed his frustration on television Friday that the U.S. didn't do more to secure his brother's release. 
  
 Charles M. Sennott, co-founder of GlobalPost and executive director of The GroundTruth Project, an affiliated nonprofit organization that trains international correspondents, said after the Mass for Mr. Foley that the issue of ransom needs to be brought into the open and discussed. 
  
 The current "fragmented" system, in which some European countries appear to quietly pay, Mr. Sennott said, while the U.S. doesn't, isn't working. 
  
 "It needs to be pulled out of the darkness and into the light, and addressed as a moral question," he said. 
  
 Mr. Sennott said Mr. Foley—who spent 44 days in captivity in Libya in 2011 after being kidnapped while reporting there—was very experienced, but also had an unbridled passion for his work. Mr. Foley wasn't reckless, but he was always going to "push it to the limit" and get as close to the front line as he could, Mr. Sennott said. "That was hard to deal with as an editor but all that effort was for the right reason," he said. 
  
 In a brief interview with The Wall Street Journal after Sunday's service, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican from New Hampshire, said whenever possible, the U.S. should use its military intelligence to try to rescue kidnapped Americans, but that she agreed with President Obama that the U.S. shouldn't pay ransom to terrorist organizations, saying the money is "just used to harm more people." Instead, she said the strategy should be one of not only containing the Islamic State but defeating it. "This is an evil, brutal, but quite sophisticated terror group," she said. 
  
 The weekend in Rochester, however, was largely free of political debate. At a Saturday night candlelight vigil that drew about 200 people to Rochester Commons, Mr. Foley's father said "we are honored that you care and that you love Jim and that you recognize the sacrifice he made," according to televised coverage. 
  
 At Sunday's service, called a "Mass of Healing, Hope and Peace," photos of James Foley dotted the church and a handwritten sign, "Pray for James Foley & His Family" was propped in the garden outside. The Foley family filled four pews. Afterwards, John and Diane Foley clasped hands with and hugged many parishioners, and then joined their supporters, including Sen. Ayotte and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, in the church hall. 
  
 The Foley family has established a scholarship in James Foley's name, saying they want to bring his "empathy, humanity and courage" to the fields of education and journalism. 
  
 Sunday's service wasn't a funeral Mass. That is planned for Oct. 18, which would have been Mr. Foley's 41st birthday. But it was a day to remember the life of Mr. Foley, whom the Rev. Paul Gousse, the church's pastor, said "freely laid his [life] down for freedom." 
  
 Write to Jennifer Levitz at Jennifer.levitz@wsj.com 
  
 Corrections & Amplifications 
  
 Rev. Paul Gousse is the pastor at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, where a memorial service was held for James Foley. His name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. (Aug. 24, 2014) |||||
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Hundreds of people packed a church in Rochester, New Hampshire, yesterday to honor murdered journalist James Foley at a mass in his hometown. At the Catholic church they attend, Foley's parents received a standing ovation after giving thanks for all the support they had received, reports the Wall Street Journal. Others at the service included US Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, Bishop Peter Libasci, and Gov. Maggie Hassan, who called for flags across the state to be flown at half-staff yesterday, the New York Times reports. Libasci offered prayers for American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff and other ISIS captives, and praised Foley for returning to cover conflict in the Middle East even after spending 44 days as a captive in Libya in 2011. "Jim went back again that we might open our eyes," the bishop said. "That we might indeed know how precious is this gift. May almighty God grant peace to James and to all our fragile world." After the service, the bishop said people shouldn't be thinking about vengeance after all the "heartbreak" it has already caused, reports the AP, which notes that Foley's funeral will be held on October 18, which would have been his 41st birthday. (British authorities say they have now identified Foley's killer.)