锡安教会创办人金明日牧师获 2026 年兰托斯人权奖，八名教会领袖仍在押Zion Church founder Pastor Ezra Jin to receive 2026 Lantos Human Rights Prize; eight church leaders remain detained

2026年10月9日（周五），兰托斯人权与正义基金会（Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice）在华盛顿宣布，将2026年兰托斯人权奖授予北京锡安教会创办人金明日（Ezra Jin Mingri）牧师。基金会称，宣布日期恰逢金牧师被捕一周年：2025年10月，他与数十名锡安教会牧者、成员在针对中国基督徒的大规模抓捕中被捕，随后被羁押约九个月，2026年7月3日获释并前往美国与家人团聚。基金会称，特朗普总统曾在5月访华期间直接向习近平主席提出他的个案。颁奖仪式定于12月10日在华盛顿举行。[1][3]

基金会公告列出的八名仍在押锡安教会领袖为：Pastor Wang Lin、Pastor Yin Huibin、Pastor Lin Shucheng、Pastor Gao Yingjia、Pastor Liu Zhenbin、Pastor Wang Cong、Elder Wang Zhong 和 Ms Wu Qiuyu。人权组织“堡垒权利”（Fortify Rights）9月21日的调查报告称，这八人2025年10月在全国性抓捕中被捕，现被羁押于广西北海（男性拘押于北海第二看守所，女性拘押于北海第一看守所），被指控“非法利用信息网络罪”“非法经营罪”和“诈骗罪”，罪名均与其主持的线上敬拜活动有关；另有九名同期被拘的教会领袖于6月18日取保候审，但仍面临类似指控。[1][2]

金牧师在基金会发布的声明中说，获奖让他有机会提高人们对中国信徒所受严重逼迫的认识：“我尤其专注于呼吁释放我锡安教会的八位弟兄姊妹，他们仍被不公正地关押。在他们获释、与亲人团聚之前，我不会停止发声。”基金会主席 Katrina Lantos Swett 称，金牧师“以在逼迫面前不屈的勇气和不可动摇的信心激励了全世界的人”。[1]

背景：锡安教会2007年创办于北京，是中国最大的未登记新教“家庭教会”网络之一。基金会称，2018年金牧师拒绝在教会内安装监控摄像头后，当局正式关闭了锡安教会，对他实施严密监视并禁止其出境；此后教会转入“地下”，在全国多城市发展出数千名成员。“堡垒权利”2026年8月采访了六名在押牧者、领袖的家属，受访者描述了任意逮捕、虐待、宗教迫害与恶劣的羁押条件；该组织还记录，代理在押教会领袖的律师 Ruth Wang 2026年9月4日逃往台湾寻求庇护，称当局以关闭律所相威胁，报复其代理此案。[1][2]

兰托斯人权奖自2009年起每年颁发，以唯一一位当选美国国会议员的纳粹大屠杀幸存者、众议员汤姆·兰托斯命名，往届得主包括达赖喇嘛、埃利·魏塞尔、热比娅·卡德尔、黄之锋等。[1]

核实说明：本记录记录的是“兰托斯基金会宣布授奖”这一可核实的公开行为（基金会官网公告与《基督邮报》报道可查）。公告中关于抓捕经过、羁押时长及特朗普提个案的说法，系该基金会的单方面陈述；八名在押人员名单与“仍被关押”的状态，来自基金会与“堡垒权利”两家机构的公开声明，本站尚未能独立核实其当前羁押状态。本站将继续跟进12月颁奖礼及八人案件的后续司法程序。[1][2][3]

On Friday, October 9, 2026, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice announced in Washington that it will award the 2026 Lantos Human Rights Prize to Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, founder of Beijing's Zion Church. According to the Foundation, the announcement coincides with the one-year anniversary of Jin's arrest: in October 2025, he was arrested together with dozens of Zion Church clergy and members during a sweeping crackdown on Christians in China, detained for about nine months, and released on July 3, 2026 to join his family in the United States. The Foundation says President Trump raised his case directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his May visit to Beijing. The award ceremony will be held on December 10 in Washington. [1][3]

The eight Zion Church leaders the Foundation says remain detained are Pastor Wang Lin, Pastor Yin Huibin, Pastor Lin Shucheng, Pastor Gao Yingjia, Pastor Liu Zhenbin, Pastor Wang Cong, Elder Wang Zhong and Ms Wu Qiuyu. In an investigative report published September 21, the human rights organisation Fortify Rights said the eight were arrested in a nationwide roundup in October 2025 and are now held in Beihai, Guangxi (men in Beihai No. 2 Detention Center, women in Beihai No. 1), charged with "illegally using information networks", "illegal business operations" and "fraud" — all charges connected to the online worship sessions they led. Nine other church leaders detained at the same time were released on bail on June 18 but continue to face similar charges. [1][2]

In a statement released by the Foundation, Jin said the award gives him a chance to raise awareness of the severe persecution faced by people of faith in China: "I am especially focused on advocating for the release of my eight brothers and sisters from Zion Church, who remain unjustly imprisoned. I will not rest from speaking out until they are free and reunited with their loved ones." Foundation president Katrina Lantos Swett said Jin "has inspired people throughout the world with his unyielding courage and unshakeable faith in the face of persecution." [1]

Background: Zion Church was founded in Beijing in 2007 and grew into one of China's largest unregistered Protestant "house church" networks. According to the Foundation, after Jin refused in 2018 to allow surveillance cameras inside the church, the authorities officially shut Zion Church down, placed Jin under heavy surveillance and barred him from leaving the country; the church then went "underground" and grew to thousands of members across many cities. In August 2026 Fortify Rights interviewed relatives of six detained pastors and leaders, who described arbitrary arrests, mistreatment, religious persecution and poor detention conditions; the organisation also recorded that Ruth Wang, a lawyer representing the detained church leaders, fled to Taiwan on September 4, 2026 to seek asylum, saying the authorities had threatened to shut down her law firm in retaliation for her work on the case. [1][2]

The Lantos Human Rights Prize has been awarded annually since 2009 and is named for Congressman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Past laureates include the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, Rebiya Kadeer and Joshua Wong. [1]

Verification note: this record documents the verifiable public act — the Lantos Foundation's announcement of the award (published on its own website and reported by The Christian Post). The Foundation's account of the arrests, the length of detention and the Trump-Xi discussion is that organisation's own statement; the list of eight detainees and their "still detained" status comes from public statements by the Foundation and Fortify Rights, and this site has not been able to independently verify their current detention status. This site will follow the December ceremony and the judicial proceedings of the eight. [1][2][3]