[CNN] Founder of one of China’s biggest underground churches freed, reunites

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📌 标题:Founder of one of China’s biggest underground churches freed, reunites with family in US

📅 发布时间:Updated Jul 5, 2026, 2:49 AM ET

📝 英文原文:
Hong Kong—A pastor who founded one ofChina’s most prominent underground churches has been released from prison and reunited with his family in the United States, his daughter told CNN.Ezra Jin, the founder of Zion Church, was among dozens of members caught up ina sweeping crackdownby Chinese authorities late last year.Chinese authorities have long seen Christianity as an unwelcome foreign influence and a threat to government control. Religious practice is legal but tightly controlled and surveilled by the government, which registers “official” state-sanctioned churches.Jin’s release came after US President Donald Trump raised his case with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to Beijing in May.“We are feeling so overwhelmed with joy. We thank God for this tremendous miracle,” his daughter Grace Jin Drexel said in a family statement to CNN.“We also thank President Trump and his administration for their tremendous leadership,” she said, saying this could not have happened “without the direct intervention from Chairman Xi Jinping.”Drexel said they hoped Jin’s release would be “a signal of a positive turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations.”CNN has contacted the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as well as the White House and US State Department, for comment.Jin founded Zion Church in Beijing in 2007. But as a crackdown on unregistered churches intensified in 2018, he and his family moved to the US, hoping to appease the Chinese authorities.While his family stayed behind in the US, Jin returned to China as authorities continued to harass church members. He was later barred from leaving the country.A detention slip delivered to Jin's family, notifying them of his detention and the charges he faces.Grace Jin DrexelHis daughter previously said they lost contact with Jin in October last year, triggering calls from Drexel, a staffer in the US Senate, for the Trump administration to help secure her father’s release.Human rights groups welcomed Jin’

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🇨🇳 中文翻译:
香港——一位创立中国最著名的地下教会之一的牧师的女儿告诉美国有线电视新闻网(CNN),他已出狱,并在美国与家人团聚。锡安教会创始人金以斯拉是去年年底陷入中国当局全面镇压的数十名成员之一。中国当局长期以来一直将基督教视为不受欢迎的外国影响力和对政府控制的威胁。宗教活动合法但受到严格控制和监视



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