{"id":235810,"date":"2026-07-05T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235810\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:55:43","slug":"pastor-freed-from-prison-in-china-weeks-after-trump-requested-his-release-ap-top-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235810\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release | Ap-top-news"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October<\/a> has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, according to rights advocates.<\/p>\n

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, of the underground Zion Church, arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, and \u201cis finally reunited with his family,\u201d Frances Hui of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation wrote on X.<\/p>\n

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, a group of Western lawmakers, also reported his release and shared a photo of the pastor with his daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, both smiling.<\/p>\n

Jin\u2019s case gained attention after Trump, when wrapping up his state visit to Beijing in May, said he raised the issue<\/a> of the pastor’s release with Xi and that the Chinese leader said he would give serious consideration to it. <\/p>\n

Jin was detained<\/a> with 17 other church leaders in October in one of China\u2019s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades, raising worries over Beijing\u2019s escalation in curtailing religious freedom.<\/p>\n

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