China Frees Beijing Pastor After Trump-Xi Talks
Rights groups said Jin’s release followed Trump’s appeal to Xi, while at least 8 Zion Church members remain detained.
- Pastor Ezra Jin was released from Chinese prison after 266 days, less than two months following President Donald Trump's intervention with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.
- Detained in October for practicing and preaching his faith, Jin led one of China's largest underground churches while his family fled the country in 2018 following previous arrests of Christians.
- Upon arriving in Los Angeles on Friday, Jin reunited with his wife, Anna Liu, and daughter, Grace Drexel, and met his grandson, also named Ezra, for the first time.
- Writing to The Free Press, the family called the release a "miracle" occurring on the eve of America's 250th birthday, stating "We thank God for this tremendous miracle."
- Jin's initial conversion to Christianity was inspired by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, an event sharing its June 4 anniversary with the birth of his newborn grandchild.
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