Before dawn, the pastor went to his church in Antioch, California, to check out why the intruder alarm had gone off. Once there, he found a man with an axe. Although the police were on the way, the Rev. Neves confronted the man on his own. By drawing on his martial arts training, he was able to stop the alleged burglar from fleeing the scene.

A California pastor in the East Bay used martial arts to fight off a burglar who broke into his church. Antioch police are describing the tense confrontation as a "battle of good and evil."

A California pastor employed his martial arts training to fend off an axe-wielding burglar who broke into a church on Thanksgiving morning.