China: Church Razed Days After Trump-Xi Summit

Join Us as We Walk with the Persecuted Faithful

This week: 77-year-old Pastor Yang Zhijin sentenced to prison for Bible studies amid the crackdown on 31 Suizhou house church leaders. Yazhong Church razed days after the Trump-Xi summit. A British reporter exposed in leaked CCP surveillance files. Pastor John Cao’s cancer battle behind bars. Bob Fu’s call to confront the worst Christian persecution since the Cultural Revolution.

Church Razed Days After Trump-Xi Summit
Days after U.S. President Donald Trump discussed religious freedom with Xi Jinping, authorities in Wenzhou demolished the prominent Yazhong Church. On May 19, 2026, excavators reduced the unregistered Protestant sanctuary to rubble. The church had resisted installing a Chinese flag on its property.
In December 2025, over 100 members were arrested in raids; 22, including leaders Lin Enzhao and Lin Enci, remain detained on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Continue Reading…

77-Year-Old Pastor Sentenced | 31 Missionaries Jailed
On May 21, 2026, the Zengdu District People’s Court sentenced 77-year-old Pastor Yang Zhijin to three years and two months in prison plus an 8,000 RMB fine. Convicted under Article 300 for “organizing and using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law,” he is one of 31 house church leaders arrested in March 2024 in a sweeping crackdown.
Authorities cited ordinary activities— Bible studies, prayer gatherings, youth training, and tithe collection— as criminal evidence. Continue Reading…

Pastor John Cao’s Desperate Plea for Beijing to Let Him Go Home
In Hunan Province, Pastor John Cao battles advanced prostate cancer while Chinese authorities prevent his reunion with his family in the United States.
Severe leg pain led to a diagnosis delayed by hospital overcrowding. Having lost 11 pounds, Cao started chemotherapy this week after hormonal therapy, with spinal radiation planned. His wife and son visited briefly in April but returned for work. Continue Reading…

UK Reporter Finds Herself in Leaked CCP Police Database
A British Daily Telegraph reporter has discovered her own file in a leaked database from China’s Ministry of Public Security. The system, named the “Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel,” stores her passport number, domestic mobile phone, old photographs, and exact employer details.
It marks her “Trackable,” logging 78 separate identifications at one intersection alone, with real-time camera captures. Continue Reading…

From Tiananmen Survivor to Voice for the Persecuted
As President Donald Trump held high-level talks with Xi Jinping in Beijing (in an interview with Jeff Coleman on Morning Light), ChinaAid founder Dr. Bob Fu reported that persecution of Christians in China had reached its worst level since the Cultural Revolution. Unregistered house churches faced intensified raids, arrests, and surveillance.
In October 2025, authorities detained Pastor Ezra Jin and 17 Zion Church leaders. Hong Kong Catholic Jimmy Lai received a 20-year sentence. Just days before the summit, six pastors were arrested for conducting Sunday school. Watch Now

Join Us In Prayer:

• Father, we plead for mercy for Pastor Yang Zhijin, Song Yude, and the 29 house church leaders. Strengthen their health and bolster their faith in You.
• Lord, we lift the Yazhong Church community, Lin Enzhao, and Lin Enci. Grant them peace that surpasses understanding. Encourage their hearts. 
• Father, we pray for supernatural protection for Sophia Yan and all journalists being unjustly surveilled by the CCP. We pray for great courage in their reporting. 
• Lord, bless Pastor John Cao during his treatment. Strengthen his body to endure chemotherapy and radiation.
• Father, thank you for voices like Jeff Coleman from Morning Light for sounding the alarm on Pastor Ezra Jin, Jimmy Lai, and all persecuted in China.