Trump May Raise Detained Pastor Ezra Jin's Case With Xi as Family Cites Worsening Health
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Updated · Fox News · May 11
Trump May Raise Detained Pastor Ezra Jin's Case With Xi as Family Cites Worsening Health
11 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 11
Grace Jin Drexel said she has new hope after learning Donald Trump is expected to mention her detained father, Beijing pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, at a May summit with Xi Jinping.
Several months into the effort, the family says Jin's condition is deteriorating in custody and that he has been unable to get prescribed medication for severe type 2 diabetes.
Dozens of Zion Church-linked religious leaders have been detained as China intensifies pressure on underground Christian groups, and the family's ability to track Jin's condition has worsened after lawyers were disbarred, detained or forced off cases.
The family says even Trump naming Jin would be a major step, but it is seeking his unconditional release so he can reunite in the United States with sons now in or heading to college.
As Pastor Jin's health fails in prison, is China's crackdown creating martyrs instead of compliant citizens?
With lawyers silenced and families threatened abroad, how can anyone challenge China's escalating war on faith?
Will President Trump’s summit plea be a diplomatic breakthrough or just a symbolic gesture for religious freedom?