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Posted on 07/05/2026 3:00:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An underground church pastor has been released from prison in China and has arrived in the United States, less than two months after President Donald Trump publicly raised his case with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Ezra Jin Mingri, who founded Beijing’s fast-growing Zion Church, was detained in October last year along with 17 other church leaders in what was one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single religious congregation in decades.
The U.S.-based advocacy group ChinaAid, which monitors religious persecution in China, said Saturday that Jin had arrived in Los Angeles following his release.
Jin’s detention drew international attention in May, when Trump said he had personally discussed the pastor’s imprisonment with Xi during a state visit to Beijing. Trump said he had also raised the imprisonment of Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai and urged the Chinese leader to reconsider both cases.
“I think he’s giving very serious consideration to the pastor,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his return flight from Beijing, but added that Lai’s case would be more difficult.
Lai, the founder of Hong Kong’s now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on charges including conspiring with foreign forces and publishing seditious material.
The case has prompted widespread condemnation from Western governments and human rights organizations, which have accused Beijing of using national security laws to silence dissent.
Jin’s family said his release came promptly and thanked the Trump administration “for their tremendous leadership,” adding that they believed it could not have happened without the direct intervention from Xi.
“We hope this is a signal of a positive turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations,” the family said in a statement.
Human rights advocates have also welcomed Jin’s release but cautioned….
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Well, I would not have held my breath for this to happen if Kamala had been in the White House instead.
This is NBC News? When do they present anything uplifting about Trump?
,,, if it’s an authoritarean regime then Christianity is a threat. Why is the UN saying nothing when freedom of religion is a composite in it’s charter? Governments make significant financial contributions to the UN each year. Maybe President Trump needs to make that clear to them.
I sure wish President Trump would speak up for Jimmy Lai.
PTL!
Pope Marx II could not be reached for comment.
Probably a Chinese spy who has been carefully groomed for this deception for years.
Because China owns the UN.
,,, yeah, certainly the WHO.
As far as I know he did.
Good.
RE: I sure wish President Trump would speak up for Jimmy Lai
Didn’t you bother to read a few more paragraphs of the article?
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