Captive Pastor Freed From Chinese Prison

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**Pastor Ezra Jin** (1:19)
He really encouraged people to meet both online and offline in smaller groups, but that really also angered the Chinese Communist Party in which they wanted to control faith and they wanted to eliminate faith, but instead of being eliminated, we grew.

**Georgia Howe** (1:36)
That was Grace Jin Drexel, daughter of formerly imprisoned pastor Ezra Jin. Jin successfully grew a Christian church in China and was persecuted by the government for it, spending years barred from leaving the country and months behind bars.

**John Bickley** (1:50)
In this episode, Grace and Pastor Ezra Jin join us to celebrate his release and further explain how this all happened. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Joining us now is Pastor Ezra Jin and his daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, who joined us earlier this year, and we had a delightful conversation and an urgent conversation with her. Grace, thank you for coming back, and Pastor Ezra Jin, thank you for coming on the show.

**Pastor Ezra Jin** (3:08)
Thank you so much for having us, and just really grateful to your show to tell my story. And now we've seen the miracle that my father is released, and so really, really grateful for everything that you guys have done as well.

**John Bickley** (3:24)
It's an amazing story. We've been following on the edge of our seats, and we're so grateful how it's turned out.
So, you know, last time we talked, Ezra, you were imprisoned in China. We talked to your daughter while you were there, and she was very urgently calling for action from the Trump administration. President Trump had taken action already, and now we've seen that you're back. So, first of all, can you please remind our audience why you were originally captured?

**Pastor Ezra Jin** (3:57)
I was arrested because of my role as a pastor, and in October of last year, I was arrested along with 20-plus members of our church.
When they arrested me, they arrested me under the charge of illegal use of information networks. But when they sent us to court, they now charged us with illegal business operations and fraud. This is not just for our church. This is how the Chinese Communist Party have been persecuting churches more generally using these charges.

**John Bickley** (4:39)
How long, so you were there since last year. What were the conditions of your imprisonment?

**Pastor Ezra Jin** (4:50)
The condition is very bad inside the detention center. In the summer, it's very hot. In the winter, it's very cold. It's a very small area where there are packing more than 30 people in the same cell. But more than just the food is horrible as well, but more than the prison condition, what is truly most terrible for me personally was that they did not allow any type of communication to the outside world for me. So I was not able to receive any letters. And also I was only receiving information through my lawyer, but they repeatedly made it so that my lawyer, my access to lawyer was denied. They've harassed four of my lawyers, including the first one, a lawyer, Zhang Kai. He also went through a lot in order to represent me.