Amid tackling every other world crisis, President Donald Trump should take a few minutes to echo Greatest Secretary of State Ever Marco Rubio’s call for Beijing to release Jin “Ezra” Mingri and other leaders of the Zion Church he founded.
If Xi Jinping’s rule of China is so fragile that he feels mortally threatened by independent religious institutions, it’s hard to see how any Western nation can trust his word on anything.
Jin founded Zion in 2007; congregations have since formed across the nation, making it one of the largest ministries in China — albeit as an “underground” church, meaning simply that it isn’t under the state’s thumb.
But Oct. 11 brought Zin’s arrest as part of nationwide dragnet that saw dozens of other Zion pastors detained.
Under the Chinese Communist Party’s ab