Zion Church moved many of its services online. Beijing still arrested its pastor.

Activists say the unprecedented round-up could be the beginning of a wider crackdown on China's underground churches.

Sen. Ted Cruz leads Senate resolution condemning Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Christians and demanding release of ...

China has in recent years arrested and detained Christian leaders of underground churches, who are not registered with the ...

Grace Jin and Bill Drexel, the daughter and son-in-law of Zion Church founder Ezra Jin Mingri, discuss the suppression of ...

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the Zion Church has been detained in China, according to his daughter and a monitoring group.

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The church’s pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, turned Zion Church into one of China’s largest unofficial congregations, even as ...

Persecution of Christians worldwide has increased significantly in both quantity and intensity, human rights experts in ...

The Christian community in Tang China managed to survive for as long as the emperors were tolerant of other religions. That changed during the rule of the emperor Wuzong (841-846 CE), who banned all ...

Christianity made it to China a lot earlier than people once believed, said history professor Daniel Bays. Until now, the most authoritative book on the subject, the one still used in classrooms, was ...