Jin Mingri

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Jin Mingri, who is also known as Ezra Jin, is the pastor of Zion Church of Beijing, an independent Chinese Christian church in Beijing, China. The church started in 2007 and soon grew to over a 1,000 worshippers. [1] Journalist Evan Osnos said Jin has a "lively televangelist flair". [2]

Born in Heilongjiang, he is a Korean ethnic minority in China. [3] He is a graduate of Beijing University (BA), Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin). [4] Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, he started attending a Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. Within a few months, he became a Christian convert. [3] In 2018, the authorities shut down the church and put the pastor under house arrest. [5] In October 2025, Jin was detained by Chinese authorities along with more than 20 other members of the Zion Church. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "FRONTLINE/World . Jesus in China Interview". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Osnos, Evan (2014). Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 315–316. ISBN   978-0-374-28074-1 . Retrieved 2022-03-05– via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 Kurlberg, Jonas; Phillips, Peter M., eds. (2020). Missio Dei in a Digital Age. London: SCM Press. ISBN   978-0-334-05911-0 . Retrieved 2022-03-05– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Shea, Nina; Fu, Bob. "China Cracks Down on Christians - by Nina Shea Bob Fu". www.hudson.org. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "China Bans Zion, Beijing's Biggest House Church". Christianity Today. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Dake, Kang (2025-10-11). "Zion Church pastor has been detained in China, his daughter and a religion monitoring group say". The Independent. Retrieved 2025-10-13.


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