Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of the influential underground Zion Church, was detained Friday evening at his home in Beihai, located in China’s southeastern Guangxi province, according to his daughter, fellow church pastors, and a religious rights monitoring group, as reported by AP.

Dozens of other Zion Church leaders were also reportedly arrested in Beijing and at least five other provinces across the country. Sean Long, a Chinese Zion Church pastor currently based in the U.S., said the detained may face charges related to the “illegal dissemination of religious content via the internet.”

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