{"id":2605957,"date":"2026-05-22T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-thought-jailing-a-prominent-pastor-would-halt-a-growing-christian-movement-they-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:22:12","slug":"china-thought-jailing-a-prominent-pastor-would-halt-a-growing-christian-movement-they-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-thought-jailing-a-prominent-pastor-would-halt-a-growing-christian-movement-they-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"China Thought Jailing a Prominent Pastor Would Halt a Growing Christian Movement &#8211; They Couldn&#8217;t Have Been More Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-thought-jailing-a-prominent-pastor-would-halt-a-growing-christian-movement-they-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ezra Jin, a Chinese pastor born in 1969, is portrayed as having been imprisoned since October for refusing to allow the Chinese Communist Party to control his church. The article says he founded the Zion Church of beijing, which grew from about 20 members to more than 1,500 over a decade, and claims the crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >unapproved religious groups intensified<\/a> under Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>It also describes Jin\u2019s background (including questioning his faith after the 1989 Tiananmen period), his education in China and later at Fuller Theological Seminary in the United States, and the church surveillance demands reportedly placed on the congregations.The piece further alleges Jin has health issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obesity-causes-alzheimers-like-brain-atrophy-you-may-prevent-it\/\" title=\"Obesity Causes Alzheimer...s-Like Brain Atrophy, You May Prevent It\">including type 2 diabetes<\/a>, and that imprisonment has separated him from major family events.<\/p>\n<p>it argues that Jin\u2019s incarceration has not stopped the growth of his movement, points to support and advocacy from Western political leaders (including Donald trump) and Jin\u2019s daughter, and frames the story as a continuation of Christian perseverance and revival despite persecution.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>All Ezra Jin wanted to do was to preach the gospel. It worked, as the gospel tends to.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Chinese Communist Party, it worked far too well. See, Jin refused to give the state control over his flock, which the country requires. For a while, they tolerated him and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-communist-party-rounds-up-members-of-underground-christian-church-in-crackdown\/\" title=\"Chinese Communist Party Rounds Up Members of Underground Christian ... in Crackdown\">unsanctioned church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he\u2019s been jailed since October. It\u2019s also why prominent Western leaders \u2014 including President Donald Trump \u2014 are telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hope-miracle-xi-hints-possible-release-christian-pastor-ezra-jin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xi Jinping<\/a> to back off.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it\u2019s hurting Jin any, eternally speaking. Physically, of course, things are much more grim. But the worst news, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-president-trump-spring-a-trap-on-treasonous-democrats-on-election-night\/\" title=\"Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?\">long run<\/a>, should be for the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, seriously. Because him being behind bars hasn\u2019t halted the growth of his church.<\/p>\n<p>First, the quick facts on Jin for those unfamiliar with the face of modern Christian persecution: Born in 1969, Jin was a student at China\u2019s most elite school, Peking University, during the government\u2019s crackdown in Tiananmen Square, leading to him questioning the meaning of life.<\/p>\n<p>He then, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china\/china-is-throwing-christians-in-jail-but-this-pastor-refuses-to-back-down-fd4c88dd?st=d6d1gG&#038;reflink=desktopweb_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, \u201cbegan to realize these Christians were different\u2026 they had God and a home they could sometimes return to, and they could be sure God loved them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he originally went through seminary in China and preached in the state-surveilled churches \u2014 which mix Christianity with the Communist Party\u2019s principles \u2014 he left in 2002 and enrolled at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lesbian-sues-seminary-refused-compromise-biblical-values-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fuller Theological Seminary<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he founded the Zion Church of Beijing: \u201cFrom a congregation of around 20, Zion grew to more than 1,500 over the next decade, making it one of the largest unsanctioned churches in Beijing,\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>During China\u2019s boom years, these congregations posed little issue for the ruling authorities. Those boom years are over, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-chinas-xi-jinping-secretly-terrified-trumps-recent-moves-desperately-wants-avoid-escalation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> has included cracking down on unapproved churches as part of his panopticon state.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the United States, Jin\u2019s case has received the kind of attention that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-dive-blackballed-news-sources-woke-wikipedia-hates-yep-western-journal-made-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xinhua<\/a> (or, for that matter, the BBC or CNN International, to the extent those three could even be told apart) would never give him.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Jin Drexel, his daughter, has been trying to free her dad, who was one of more than 30 leaders summarily detained last October. It was a culmination of a battle that has taken the better part of a decade, including the government demanding the church install two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-is-close-to-a-nuclear-bomb-and-it-is-time-to-decide-what-to-do\/\" title=\"Iran Is Close to a Nuclear Bomb, and It Is Time to Decide What to Do\">dozen surveillance cameras<\/a> so that the congregants\u2019 activities could be checked.<\/p>\n<p>It still grew from a congregation of 20 to more than 1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo him, Christianity really like changed his life,\u201d Grace, a U.S. citizen, said to Freedom House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the generation of students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, and so at that time, the whole generation \u2014 many of them \u2014 just had completely lost faith in their future. And for him, he found hope and love and freedom in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the usual privations of prison, Jin also suffers from Type 2 diabetes and other health conditions, for which he\u2019s receiving predictably little treatment.<\/p>\n<p>And when he was in good health, it wasn\u2019t as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-crew-snared-chinas-massive-surveillance-system-covering-trump-visit-see-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if China<\/a> was allowing him freedom, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has missed my wedding. He has missed my brother\u2019s graduations. And my mom\u2019s graduation,\u201d Grace said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/publications\/struggle-for-freedom-spotlight-pastor-ezra-jin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George W. Bush Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe birth of my two children\u2026 I would really love for my father to meet his grandchildren in person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he does have some powerful advocates, including President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard about it. I will certainly look into it,\u201d Trump told reporters before his China trip, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/top-videos\/faith-under-fire-inside-chinas-expanding-crackdown-on-christians-trump-xi-jinping-pastor-ezra-jin-daughter-grace-jin-drexel-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National Desk<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ll bring it up. I\u2019ve gotten a lot of people out of a lot of countries including China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace was more direct: \u201cAs a daughter, I just want my father back,\u201d she told The National Desk.<\/p>\n<p>And that would be excellent \u2014 but better still is the fact that Ezra Jin is a man who will not be bowed nor broken by communists, for he knows Jesus is his Savior.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, fellow Zion Church Pastor Sean Long asked him what would come to pass if the worst-case scenario happened and they were all thrown behind bars. \u201cHallelujah,\u201d Jin said, according to Long. \u201cA new wave of revival will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the highest honor for a Christian, for people like Pastor Jin, being put in prison,\u201d Long told The Wall Street Journal. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly the mark of following Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amen. As Jesus said, \u201cFor it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jail beats hell by a wide margin, naturally, but to be in a place where those are the choices is proof that evil forces are indeed afoot and know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? They don\u2019t win. Not in heaven, certainly, and not on the earth, either.<\/p>\n<p>Jail believers like Ezra Jin, and watch their impact grow. More importantly, watch the legitimacy of the CCP-run church system diminish instantaneously.<\/p>\n<p>What the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chinese-communist-party-rounds-members-underground-christian-church-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP meant for evil<\/a>, God meant for good. Not that there was any doubt, but it\u2019s nice to see eternal cause-and-effect work on the earthly side, as well.<\/p>\n<p>As early church apologist Tertullian put it, \u201cThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.\u201d More than 18 centuries since he said it (give or take), that remains harsh but true.<\/p>\n<p>We are not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-50-million-shrine-constructed-honor-first-us-martyr-recognized-catholic-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called to easy lives as Christians<\/a>. Most of us are called to quiet lives of difficulty. 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