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Westboro Baptist Church News

Westboro Baptist Church Facts

Fred Phelps died in March, but the group he founded, the Westboro Baptist Church, is still picketing funerals. The US group often shows up at memorial services for soldiers or gay victims of hate. History of Westboro Baptist Church. The Westboro Baptist Church was incorporated in the late 1960s and is a non-profit organization. The church members consider the church to be a Primitive Baptist Church with the leader, Fred Phelps and his family, making up the majority of the group’s members.