Chinese Underground Church Leader Jin Mingri Has Been Released After Months in Prison

Less than a year after Chinese authorities arrested dozens of leaders from one of the country’s largest underground churches, the pastor at the center of the crackdown is finally free.Pastor Jin Mingri, who also goes by “Ezra,” founder of Zion Church in Beijing, has been released from prison and arrived in Los Angeles, according to religious freedom watchdog ChinaAid.Jin was arrested last October alongside 30 other church leaders during what observers described as one of China’s largest crackdow