Jin Mingri

Jin Mingri, who is also known as Ezra Jin, is the pastor of Zion Church of Beijing a very influential independent Chinese Christian church in Beijing, China. The church started in 2007 and soon grew to over a 1,000 worshipers.[1] Journalist Evan Osnos said Jin has a "lively televangelist flair".[2]

Born in Heilongjiang, he is a Korean ethnic minority in China.[3] He is a graduate of Beijing University (BA), Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin).[4] Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, he started attending a Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. Within a few months, he became a Christian convert.[3] In 2018, the authorities shut down the church and put the pastor under house arrest.[5]

References
  1. "FRONTLINE/World . Jesus in China Interview | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. Osnos, Evan (2014). Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 315–316. ISBN 978-0-374-28074-1. Retrieved 2022-03-05 – via Google Books.
  3. Kurlberg, Jonas; Phillips, Peter M., eds. (2020). Missio Dei in a Digital Age. London: SCM Press. ISBN 978-0-334-05911-0. Retrieved 2022-03-05 – via Google Books.
  4. Shea, Nina; Fu, Bob. "China Cracks Down on Christians - by Nina Shea Bob Fu". www.hudson.org. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  5. Monitor, World Watch. "China Bans Zion, Beijing's Biggest House Church". .christianitytoday.com. Retrieved 14 November 2021.


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