"When will Daddy be back? : A year after Wang Lin was imprisoned, the Zion Church persecuted two children.

"What if you get caught too? The blogger adds:

This was the time when the child of the pastor Wang Lin asked his mother questions after his detention.

On 8 October, Amnesty International published a long interview with Suzimin. She was not talking about a capture, but about a punishment for continuing to enter family life: the husband was detained, his wife was monitored and harassed, and two children experienced restrictions on their departure and long-term separation.

The crime facing Wang Lin comes from the most common daily activities of a church

Wang Lin was a lawyer and later became a shepherd of the Zion Church. In October 2025, the Chinese police in many places carried out a round-up of the Zion Church network.

Su Zhu Ming said that the police today interpret voluntary contributions by believers as “the proceeds of fraud” and theological courses and training of churches as “illegal operations”.

This has changed the way religious persecution is packaged.

The international community was familiar with political offences such as “incitement to subversion” “harming national security”; Today, an unofficially controlled church can be broken down into financial, training, publishing and network activities, and then be politically pressured by ordinary economic crime.

The State punishes not only the accused but also the family

Suzi Minh and the two children were not charged with crimes but were subjected to constant surveillance and harassment after their arrest and were restricted from leaving the country.

This suggests that the logic of stability does not draw from the boundaries of criminal responsibility. Following a sensitive case, the family ' s housing, travel, education and psychological security may be included in the pressure.

Su Zhu Ming eventually arrived with his children in the United States, but Wang Lin remains in detention in China.

The real thing that Xi Jinping's regime can't tolerate is the Community of Non-Party Rule

The core issue of the Zion Church was never the existence of a church, but rather its refusal to enter the official “triangular” religious system.

In 2018, after the Beijing authorities closed down the Zion Church site, the church turned to family gatherings and online networks, and instead developed into a cross-city religious community.

This autonomous organizational capacity is in itself a risk for the party system.

Thus, the capture of priests, qualitative dedication, restriction of family members and control of cyber-courses appear to be separate from criminal law, administration and cyber-governance, and ultimately point to the same goal: to re-enter the State ' s path of authorization, control and dismantling.

Wang Lin's children asked “When Dad will be back”, and there was no complex legal term.

But it reveals the simplest fact: when a regime views an independent faith community as a threat to governance, it is often an organization that is not abstract but a family that ultimately bears the cost.