Washington, July 6 -- Rep. Chris Smith issued the following press release:
Ezra Jin Mingri, founder and pastor of an underground church in China and a prisoner of conscience in that country, was released from imprisonment and reunited with his family in the U.S. shortly before Independence Day, U.S. officials said.
At a May summit in China, President Donald Trump asked (https://www.osvnews.com/tag/trump/) Chinese President Xi Jinping to release political prisoners of interest to the U.S., including Jimmy Lai (https://www.osvnews.com/tag/jimmy-lai/), Hong Kong's prominent Catholic and pro-democracy campaigner, and Jin, founder and pastor of Zion Church. Both cases presented grave religious freedom concerns (https://www.osvnews.com/trump-s...