Chinese pastor released from prison after Trump raised his case with Xi Jinping

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.

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.

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Ezra Jin Mingri, who founded Beijing’s Zion Church, was detained in October of 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.