BEIJING—Under intense pressure from authorities in China, Ezra Jin persisted for years in building one of the nation’s largest underground Christian churches, with branches in 40 cities across the ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church in China was detained, according to his daughter, a church pastor and a group that monitors religion in the East Asian country. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the ...

Pastor Jin, a pastor and father of children with U.S. citizenship, was arrested at his home in Beihai, Guangxi, on Friday, October 10. According to his daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, the arrests have ...