Taiwan Church News
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Oct 13 ~ 19, 2025
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Many Pastors and Christians Missing After Zion Church Raided by the Chinese Police
Interviewed and reported by Lin Yi-ying
On October 10, according to ChinaAid, the Chinese authorities launched a systematic raids and arrests against a renown underground church – Zion Church, located across China’s cities and provinces among Beijing, Guangxi/Beihai, Chongqing, Zhejiang/Jiaxing, Fujian/Fuzhou and other places. Rev Jin Mingri, chief pastor of Beijing Zion Church, and Rev Yin Huibin were detained at home, while Rev Wang Lin, pastor of Shanghai Zion Church, was arrested on a trip to Shenzhen on October 9, and no body knew where he was jailed up to date. In addition, it’s very likely still more pastors, preachers and church co-workers of Zion Church were arrested without notice.
Informative Sources point out that the scope of this systematic raid is wide, deployment of police force is deliberately planned with a blitz action, and the drastic clamp down deems an order from CCP power core. After Rev Wang Lin was arrested, Liu Jiang was also detained on Oct 11. Church members, Wang Chong, Sun Chong, Rev Kao Yingjia, Evangelist Misha, and believers Li Sengjuan, Ming li, Hu Yenzi and many others of Beijing Zion Church were missing, and Chuei Shiaoleh and An Mei were ordered to stay at homes.
Other areas out of Beijing, Evangelist Chang Koh was arrested earlier on Sept 26 at Zhejiang/Jiaxing. In addition, Evangelist Wang Rong in Fujian/Fuzhou, Li Yen in Guangxi/Beihai, Rev Wang Dershen, Zhang Paul’s family of four, Chen Hsiaopin, Tu Yah and many other believers were all missing without knowing their whereabout.
Founded in 2007, Zion Church is an underground house church in China. At its peak, all church members reached around 1,500 people. As early as Sept 9, 2019, CCP’s Civil Affairs Department started to raid flagship Zion Church in Beijing, claiming that it hosted an illegal gathering, and forcibly closed the assemblies in various places across Beijing. According to media then, most of the arrested Zion Church believers were raided at their own homes by the local police with search warrants, confiscating their mobile phones, computers, credit cards and personal belongings. A Chinese pastor indicated that some arrested members were since charged in the crime of “illegal use of internet communication”.
In response to this large-scale religious prosecution, on Oct 11, a facebook account called “Sean Long Fei” posted an urgent letter of intercession, Pray for Beijing Zion Church, using the languages in Chinese, English and Korean. The intercession letter pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party began a new wave of religious persecution since May this year.
Since then, the letter indicated, Sunday services of Zion Church in dozens of cities across China were often interrupted or intervened by the police, and as many as 150 people had been taken into custody. The intercession letter also called on Christian brothers and sisters of our Lord Jesus Christ around the world to pray and deliver solidarity and support for Zion Church and Christian Churches across China.
Rev Ng Tiet-gan, secretary of PCT Church and Society Committee, remarked “the Chinese Communist Party in its nature is utterly afraid of losing control of any mass assemblies or movements, especially those driven by a passionate faith or religious belief.” He urged pastors and Christians in Taiwan to pray earnestly for the oppressed brothers and sisters of Zion Church now severely persecuted across China.
Translated by Peter Wolfe
（Photo／Facebook of “Sean Long Fei” ）
