In October 2025, China’s communist regime carried out one of its largest single crackdown operations against Christians to date, arresting some three dozen pastors and members associated with the Zion Church across nine Chinese provinces and municipalities, including its Founder and head Pastor Ezra Jin.

Now, some hope for Jin’s release appears to be on the horizon as Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly told President Trump during their summit Friday that he is “giving very serious consideration” to releasing the pastor.

On October 10, news surfaced that over “thirty pastors, ministers, and Christian leaders” from Zion Church “have been arbitrarily detained, disappeared, or placed under house arrest.”

While some of the Zion Church members have since been released, 17 remain imprisoned, including Jin. The church is part of China’s vast underground network of Christian churches that have not been officially recognized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Independentsourcessay that there are as many as 160 million Christians in China, with only 44 million officially registered as Christians with the government.

Under China’s current dictator Xi Jinping, the regime hassignificantly ramped upthe CCP’s seven-decade long persecution of Christians, imprisoning a vast number of pastors and practitioners estimated to be in the thousands.

“[J]ails in China [are] way overcrowded,”explainedformer U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Thursday.

“They get no sleeping conditions. It’s all very unsanitary. And it’s a form of persecution and penalty [for being a member of] a blacklist[ed] group. Unfortunately, now the Christians … are going to be put into this blacklist like they’ve done [with] Falun Gong and the Muslim Uyghurs and Tibetan Buddhists.”

Brownback further noted that the CCP’s persecution of Christians appears to be mirroring what occurred during the regime’s early history.

“You’re getting back now to the way it was under some of the Mao time period. I think really you’re seeing in Xi Jinping a reincarnation of Mao, if I can use the Buddhist terminology here. He’s going hard at this. He will tolerate none of it. People are being disappeared. This is a war on faith. It’s a war with God.”

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