Hints and tips:
...Meanwhile Phelps-Roper suffered a taste of the limelight when she came to prominence as an escapee from the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church....
...When the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, set itself up as a beacon of hate, staging vocal and vile abusive protests against gay people, transgender people, atheists, Muslims, Jews and even other...
...While making a film about the Phelps family, members of the fiercely homophobic Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, he received a dressing-down from the patriarch, Fred Phelps, who referred to his “feigned...
...It is 1997, and Adam’s mother Jane is the author of a best-selling book that brings her the unwelcome attention of the Christian fundamentalists of the Westboro Baptist Church, as well as threatening phone...
...We had originally planned to have lunch at a Baptist church in Columbia, the state capital....
...On Tuesday afternoon, protest groups, from anarchists to members of the Westboro Baptist Church, clashed on Cleveland’s Public Square, forcing scores of police officers to shut the area down....
...Unfollow How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church conquered Twitter before coming to question the radical beliefs she was extolling....
...White supremacists, led by the KKK, have a history of attacking black churches, including the infamous bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 that killed four young girls...
...Targets also included Westboro Baptist Church, which has attracted attention in the US for its controversial views on homosexuality....
...There were, however, about a dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an extremist group based in Kansas known for its anti-gay ideologies, holding signs with messages such as “USA’s doom” and “God...
...Petitions calling for an end to the tax-exempt status of the Westboro Baptist Church have collectively received almost 400,000 signatures but have not received an official response....
...Although his family was southern Baptist and he attended the local church, “I bowed out early,” Goodman says. “It was very heaven and hell,” he explains. “You’re damned anyway no matter what you do....
...“Emma is a state powerlifting champion and attends Overland Park Baptist church. Her hero is Jesus Christ,” informs the public address system. On the sidelines, Art Kennedy discusses local politics....
...Born in 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, Houston made her debut at 11 singing the spiritual “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” in a Baptist church....
...Most of the people waiting outside the service were wearing white, a response to a request for “angels” to stop the radical Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the event....
...The differences between Christians, Muslims and followers of a Judaic tradition there seem no greater than the division between Methodists, Baptists and the Church of England in Britain....
...Mr Philips holds strong religious beliefs and is on the board of Canada’s Chartwell Baptist Church....
...The ringing of the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange is broadcast worldwide each weekday, while church bells largely fall on deaf ears....
...And next to a Coke bottle sign overlooking the highway stand three giant concrete crosses for the recently completed Baptist mega-church at Pinnacle Hills....
...One discussion group, entitled Christians Exploring Other Spiritualities, featured a lively crowd, including a daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher who had begun attending drum circles, an unhappy, church-going...
...asked Joan Maruskin, of Church World Service, during a panel in Washington on the role of faith, culture and law in the immigration debate....
...Here, “Mr Jimmy” is respected as much for the 160 years his family has lived in Plains, and the weekly bible classes he teaches at a local Baptist church, as for his exploits in Washington or Africa....
...Alabama contest reveals ideological divisions Governor Bob Riley of Alabama has chaired his local Baptist church’s board of trustees, taught at Sunday school and holds regular Bible study meetings in his...
International Edition