Topic: United States
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 ...
A major US study released Monday put the total number of Christians worldwide at 2.18 billion -- almost a third -- of the estimated global population of 6.9 billion.Christians make up as big a proportion of the world's population as they did ...
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 ...
Archbishop John Nienstedt has issued a prayer in support of Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriageJohn Nienstedt, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, has issued a prayer in support of Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The approval of a specialty Texas vehicle license plate which says "One State Under God" and shows three crosses has again put Texas Governor Rick Perry on the spot in the Republican presidential race.The Texas Department of Motor ...
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 ...
Britain's Amir Khan, a talented world boxing champion on an eight-fight win streak, could also play an important role in combating anti-Muslim prejudice, according to his US promoter."He has the character and the background to unite the cultures very well," said Golden ...
A US citizen was one of at least 55 people killed in Tuesday's blast near a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul, the US embassy in the city said Wednesday."Yes, that's true. I can't comment further on that pending the family's ...
(Reuters) - Billy Graham, one of America's best-known evangelists, was released on Tuesday from a North Carolina hospital after a bout with pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said.Graham, 93, returned to his home in Montreat, North Carolina, after a six-day stay in the ...
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