Pastor Pleads Guilty To Killing His Wife
A Yonkers man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2019 killing of his estranged wife in front of her grandchildren. The plea comes just over two years after Victor Mateo ran over his estranged wife with a car and then stabbed her to death with a machete, according to the District Attorney Darcel Clark. Mateo, a pastor in the Bronx, and his wife, Noelia Mateo, had been estranged for about a month when he “mercilessly killed her in front of her two young grandchildren and bystanders” on Oct. 3, 2019, Clark said. Mateo will be sentenced to 23 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision. Read more about the murder here.
New Hampshire Student Suspended For Saying There Are Only Two Genders
A New Hampshire high school student who was punished by his school for allegedly saying there “are only two genders” has sued the school district and its vice principal. The student and his mother filed a state lawsuit this month against Exeter High School and Vice Principal Marcy Dovholuk after he was suspended for one football game for stating his beliefs about gender in a text message to a classmate. The student then turned the texts over to the vice principal, who, along with the football coach, allegedly told him he was “not respecting pronouns” and that he needed to “respect how people identify.” Read more about the case here.
Hamas Terrorist Opens Fire Near Entrance Of Temple Mount
Security forces in Israel are on high alert after a Hamas terrorist opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday, killing one and injuring four others. The shooter opened fire on civilians and security personnel near the entrance of the Temple Mount around 9 a.m. Sunday. Officers shot the gunman to death at the scene. It was the first killing of a Jewish Israeli civilian by a Palestinian gunman since May. The militant Islamist group Hamas said the gunman was a senior member of its movement in East Jerusalem. The attack immediately revived calls from right-wing Israelis to install metal detectors near the entrances to the holy site. Read more about the killing here.
Christian Teacher Makes Over 2100 Desks For Students
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced many students to attend school remotely, a Christian teacher from Central Iowa got busy making desks for children in need of a proper workspace.
Nate Evans, who teaches at Des Moines Christian School in Urbandale, launched “Woodworking with a Purpose” last September when he realized that some students didn’t have a space at home to do their assignments. So far, he and his team have made over 2,100 desks. According to Evans, the effort is “100 percent led by God. I’ve always wanted to help kids. That’s why I became a teacher,” he pointed out. “Education was my ministry. In the last year or so, God has truly revealed Himself to me.”
Read more about his efforts here.
