Topic: Iowa
URBANDALE, Iowa (Reuters) - Two prominent Iowa religious conservative leaders endorsed Republican Rick Santorum on Tuesday, bolstering his longshot presidential bid and dealing a blow to front-runner Newt Gingrich two weeks before the state's kickoff nominating contest.Bob Vander Plaats, head of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two prominent Iowa religious conservative leaders endorsed Republican Rick Santorum on Tuesday, bolstering his longshot presidential candidacy and dealing a blow to front-runner Newt Gingrich two weeks before the state's kickoff nominating contest.Bob Vander Plaats, head of the influential ...
DES MOINES/MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich's marital problems have come back to haunt him in Iowa where Christian conservatives are split over whether they can look beyond his past infidelities and endorse him for the January 3 caucuses.The Family Leader, one of ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Frozen by indecision, Iowa's politically powerful religious conservatives are still on the sidelines in the Republican presidential race less than a month before the state's kick-off nominating contest.After helping to propel Mike Huckabee to victory over Mitt ...
Huckabee courts evangelical conservatives, says ousting of Iowa Supreme Court judges historicFormer Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a national movement when ousting three state Supreme Court justices who agreed with a decision to strike a ban ...
Religion News in BriefRoman Catholic leaders in Iowa are urging voters to back a constitutional convention, saying the rare gathering would be the quickest way to overturn the court ruling that legalized gay marriage in the state.The Iowa Catholic Conference, which represents ...
SIX FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM IOWA KEOKUK a chief of the Sauk Native American tribe who cooperated with the U.S. government which conflicted him with Black Hawk who had led part of the tribe into the Black Hawk War. Keokuk County, Iowa and ...
Family owners of kosher Iowa slaughterhouse are embroiled in immigration debateTwo decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa not exactly a center of Jewish culture.The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed ...
Evangelicals quietly worry about McCain, may not drive voter turnout like they did for BushStirring her morning coffee, lifelong Republican Grace Droog voiced her doubts and those of many evangelical voters about what she isn't hearing from John McCain in this year's ...
Daily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world. Reuters reported that Pakistan has seen a wave of violence by Islamic militants; most of it in the northwest and the adjoining lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, since ...