(ChurchLeaders) A pastor in China who has been under house arrest for nine years has finally been released. Chinese officials are no longer surveilling Jin Tianming, founder of Shouwang Church in Beijing, who was put under house arrest without trial in 2011.
“Although there has never been a trial indicting Pastor Jin,” says International Christian Concern (ICC), “he was detained when his church started to hold services outdoors at a city plaza following eviction from rented premises. Shouwang Church has been targeted by the government for its refusal to join the state-approved Three Self Church.”