Family members of a pastor detained in China by the nation’s communist government are optimistic that President Donald Trump can help secure the minister’s release during his visit to Beijing.
Ezra Jin was arrested in October as the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on Christian activity in the nation, according to areportfrom the New York Post.
Grace Jin Drexel — the daughter of Jin as well as a U.S. citizen who lives in Washington, D.C. — told the outlet that she experienced a “glimmer of hope” when Trump said he would mention her father’s imprisonment to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“This president has just a remarkable way of doing things that most people say are impossible,” she told the New York Post.
“If anyone, this president might be able to bring back my father.”
Drexel is pregnant with her third child — and she hopes her father can be back in the United States within the next four weeks before his grandchild is due.
On October 10, 2025, Chinese authorities launched coordinated nationwide raids against underground Christian leaders. Chinese pastor Ezra Jin and many others were arrested on charges of “inciting to subvert state power.”
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“A week before my father was detained, we just told my dad that we got pregnant, and it was so early that we weren’t sharing it widely or anything like that,” Drexel said.
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