In this March 19, 2006 file photo, Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps, who founded a Kansas church that's widely known for its protests at military ...

Fred Phelps, a publicity-hungry Kansas pastor who picketed hundreds of military funerals because he believed America was too sympathetic to gays, died early Thursday in Topeka, Kan. He was 84. His ...

FILE - In a March 19, 2006 file photo, Pastor Fred Phelps preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. In this June 6, 2009 file photo, protesters from Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist ...

The Westboro Baptist Church is known for picketing military funerals and its celebration of death and tragedy, even the 9/11 attacks. Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of the church’s founder ...

The first time Megan Phelps-Roper came to Las Vegas, it was May 2004 and she was here to picket a live recording of the Howard Stern show at the Hard Rock Hotel. Standing beside her two younger ...

Days after we learned that Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, was on his death bed, one of his sons has confirmed that the anti-gay pastor died late on Wednesday ...

Westboro Baptist Church founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. is in hospice care and near death, according to family and church members say. His estranged son says the longtime pastor's passing would put his ...

LIMA — Award-winning singer David Phelps will be in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Lima Baptist Temple, 982 Brower Road, Lima. Tickets range from $20 to $30 with VIP tickets going for $50.

Phelps was reported to be in poor health by his son, Nathan Phelps, earlier in the week. At the time, Nathan Phelps revealed that his father was in a hospice facility and “on the edge of death” in a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, has died, according to his son, Timothy Phelps. He was 84. The ...

Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, died around midnight Thursday. For almost 24 years, Phelps and his small group of followers have made themselves infamous ...