The Rev Fred Phelps Sr, the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and US soldiers, on America’s tolerance for gay people, has died.

A US radio shock jock barred from entering Britain said he will sue for defamation after his name appeared on the British Home Office’s list of 16 “least wanted”.

THE grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11 million (€7m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

The grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11m (€7.6m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

The governor of Kansas has signed a law today barring protesters from funerals in an attempt to curtail a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals, claiming the deaths are God’s punishment for homosexuality.