Christian pastor’s daughter urges US lawmakers to help free her father in China
November 21, 2025
The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide. Grace Jin Drexel said her father, Ezra Jin Mingri, was formally charged this week along with 17 other leaders of the prominent underground Zion Church. They were detained in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades. As she urged lawmakers on Thursday to “not forget us,” another hearing on Capitol Hill saw lawmakers praise the Trump administration’s decision to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” over allegations of failing to rein in Christian persecution.