Trump Pledges to Raise Jailed Chinese Pastor's Case With Xi Jinping

President Trump has publicly pledged to raise the case of detained Pastor Ezra Jin — leader of one of China's largest underground Protestant churches — directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping during high-level Beijing talks, as the pastor's daughter pleads for his release after seven months of imprisonment. The systematic 'Sinicization' campaign forcing churches to submit to Communist Party ideology represents a fulfilment of the end-times pattern of state power suppressing the name of Christ on a mass scale. Scripture warns that followers of Christ will face hatred and persecution from governing authorities before the return of the Lord, and China's crackdown on hundreds of pastors stands as a sobering marker of that prophesied global pressure on the Church.