To mark Banned Books Week 2025, the Dawit Isaak Library in Sweden, together with BBDO Nordics, has created the world’s first double-bound book: a special unreadable edition of George Orwell’s 1984.

Authorities arrested Zion Church’s Pastor Jin “Ezra” Mingri along with dozens of church leaders. Since Thursday, police have detained nearly 30 pastors and staff members of Zion Church, an influential ...

Editor's note:Select us as a preferred source here to keep seeing IndyStar in your search results. The congregation sat mostly quiet as Jeffrey A. Johnson II explained what happened. A situation that ...

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of the influential underground Zion Church, was detained Friday evening at his home in Beihai, located in China’s southeastern Guangxi province, according to his ...

BEIJING—Under intense pressure from authorities in China, Ezra Jin persisted for years in building one of the nation’s largest underground Christian churches, with branches in 40 cities across the ...

HERNANDO, Miss. - There will be no immediate jail time for a female youth pastor who admitted to the sexual battery of a teenager who attended her church. Lindsey Whiteside's case first came to light ...

(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 ...

The Trump administration has called for the immediate release of an underground church pastor detained in China whose children are American citizens. The State Department’s demand follows a sweeping ...

The church’s pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, turned Zion Church into one of China’s largest unofficial congregations, even as government pressure on Christianity increased. By Vivian Wang Reporting from ...

Baltimore — The Rev. Rodney Hudson has had enough scary confrontations in and around his churches that he has taken safety measures sone would consider extreme. There was the day he was giving the ...

The pastor of one of China's biggest underground evangelical churches was arrested Friday in what appears to be a roundup of Christian leaders, and his family and followers fear for his safety. Pastor ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -In this photo taken Aug. 4, 2018, pastor Jin ...