When Grace Jin Drexel couldn’t contact her father on October 10, she tried not to panic. She had just heard that one of the pastors of his underground Christian church in China had been detained by ...

A Christian pastor and father of U.S. citizens along with dozens of church staff and members have been arrested in China amid a crackdown, his daughter and the church say. Ezra Jin, founder and pastor ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church in China was detained, according to his daughter, a church pastor, and a group that monitors religion in the East Asian country. “This is a very disturbing ...

Gustave Wilhelm Loesch became one of many pioneering spirits who left his ancestral homeland to immigrate to the United States. The 28-year-old arrived in 1838 and soon joined many of his fellow ...

Zion Lutheran Church in Concordia will host its Chartering Service on Jan. 4 2026, marking its official formation at 117 W.

On Tuesday, Chinese authorities formally arrested 18 leaders of Zion Church, including pastor Jin “Ezra” Mingri, and charged them with the crime of “illegally using information networks,” China Aid ...

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, incorporated on 17 Mar. 1847, helped launch 5 other Lutheran churches of the Missouri Synod in Cleveland. It began on 14 Apr. 1843 when 45 communicants from another ...

Last Friday Grace Jin Drexel received a text from her father in China, the prominent pastor Jin Mingri, telling her to pray for another pastor who had gone missing. The text said that the other pastor ...

(AP) — Zion Church is among the largest so-called underground or house churches that are unregistered with the Chinese authorities. They defy Chinese government restrictions requiring believers to ...