Topic: Newt Gingrich

Two Iowa faith leaders back Republican Santorum

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 ...

Christian group struggles over Gingrich endorsement

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 ...

Gingrich's attack on Palestinians draws fire

A leading Democratic lawmaker criticized Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Saturday for deriding the Palestinians as an "invented people" and questioning their right to statehood.Senator Carl Levin said Gingrich's comments in an interview to be aired by the Jewish Channel television ...

Iowa's religious conservatives up in air on 2012

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 ...
An ad attacking Newt Gingrich for his marital infidelity was launched by a conservative Christian group on FridayAn ad attacking Newt Gingrich for his marital infidelity was launched by a conservative Christian group on Friday. The ad arrives just as Gingrich has ...
Newt Gingrich has taken what might be termed an 'interesting' position with respect to the Islamic building which people are trying to build down the block from Ground Zero. To that, add 60% ridiculous/erroneous analyses of the facts related to this particular ...
Newt Gingrich, a Catholic convert, co-produces film on Pope John Paul's IIThe prominent U.S. Republican Newt Gingrich — a recent convert to Catholicism — is in Poland promoting a documentary he co-produced on Pope John Paul II's role in defeating communism.In Poland, ...