Washington, Nov 3, 2025 (AFP) - Daughter of 'underground' pastor urges China for his release

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When Grace Jin Drexel lost contact with her father in China weeks ago, her worries swiftly turned into fear -- he, alongside more than 20 others, had been detained in a national crackdown on his underground church. She recalls being consumed by franticness: "I was texting literally everyone in my contacts, like, 'what do I do?'" Her father is Jin Mingri, who founded the unregistered Zion Church in 2007 in Beijing. It grew to 1,500 members before......

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