http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23282/fred-phelps-shirley-phelps-roper-banned-england http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23282/fred-phelps-shirley-phelps-roper-banned-england#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:48:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23282 The Home Secretary has banned two extremist anti-gay preachers from entering Britain. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who belong to the US Westboro Baptist Church, were planning to come to the UK to protest outside a performance of a youth play which recounts the death of gay university student.

Other members of their hate group will be stopped from entering the country as well.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23282/fred-phelps-shirley-phelps-roper-banned-england/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21996/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21996/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-3#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:40:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21996 Canadian border guards have been told to bar members of a fanatical American church from entering the country after they announced plans to protest at the funeral of the man decapitated on a Greyhound bus, says a Winnipeg MP.

The hate group -- which masquerades as a Christian church -- is known for its despicable behavior at funerals and elsewhere.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21996/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21978/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21978/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-2#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:52:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21978 A despicable hate group that masquerades as a Christian church is helping to advertise a play about its founder by doing what it does best: spewing putrid hatred.

The Westboro Baptist Church also plans to protest at the funeral of a young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21978/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21938/westboro-baptist-church-fire http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21938/westboro-baptist-church-fire#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:10:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21938 Members of the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group masquerading as a Christian church -- label a fire that occured at the garage next to the 'church' as a religious hate crime.

The cult's followers are known primarily for their despicable practice of picketing funerals of people they hate.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21938/westboro-baptist-church-fire/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21488/phelps-family-loses-in-court http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21488/phelps-family-loses-in-court#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 13:46:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21488 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21488/phelps-family-loses-in-court/feed 0