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‘I Want My Dad Back:’ Inside the CCP’s War on Underground Churches | Grace Jin Drexel
In this episode, I sit down with Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of detained Pastor Ezra Jin, the founder of one of China’s largest underground house-church networks.
Last October, Pastor Jin was arrested along with 27 other pastors and church leaders from Zion Church. It was one of the largest assaults on independent Christian congregations in China since the Cultural Revolution, said Drexel. She has since become a prominent voice speaking out against religious persecution in China.
State repression of Zion Church began in 2018 amid a broader wave of Communist Party efforts to subjugate faith…
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