President Donald Trump has pledged to personally intervene for a Christian pastor imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party without charges since October, bringing the case directly to Xi Jinping during his upcoming high-stakes visit to Beijing.
The Trump administration has demanded that a pastor detained in China be released. Pastor Jin Mingr, who also goes by Ezra Jin, was detained on October 10.
A 51-year-old Arizona man admitted to murdering and crucifying a local pastor in a brutal attack he claims was part of a nationwide plan to kill Christian leaders. Adam Christopher Sheafe confessed during a jailhouse interview to killing 76-year-old Pastor William Schonemann in New River in April, stating the act was religiously motivated.
The Cuban communist regime has released Evangelical pastor Luis Guillermo Borjas from custody, but both he and his wife, Pastor Roxana Rojas, still face charges of “contempt” and “disobedience” in a Cuban military court on June 9. Their crime? Defending their son, Kevin Lay Laurencio Rojas, a young man facing trial for deserting the regime’s brutal, compulsory military service.
In a tragic reminder of the growing danger faced by Christians abroad, American missionary Pastor Josh Sullivan was abducted at gunpoint while leading a prayer meeting at his church in South Africa.
Father Michael Pfleger of Saint Sabina’s Church in Chicago has once again voiced strong criticism of former President Donald Trump and his administration.
