President Donald Trump’s relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping paid dividends this week as an imprisoned underground church pastor was released two months after the president personally lobbied for his freedom.

The pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri is the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church and was one of 18 church leaders arrested in what an NBC News report described as “China’s largest crackdowns on a single religious congregation in decades.”

Jin’s case came to the forefront after President Trump, on the way home from a state visit to Beijing in May, said he discussed with Xi the imprisonment of the pastor as well as that of Hong Kong activist…

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