Case Details and Biography of Lin Shucheng, Victim of the 10·9 Zion Church Case Who Was Arrested

On August 21, 2026, this outlet learned the case details and biography of Lin Shucheng, a victim of the 10·9 Zion Church case who was arrested. They are reported as follows:

Lin Shucheng: Born in the 1990s, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province; a Christian, preacher at Beijing Zion Church, victim of the 10·9 Zion Church case, and imprisoned prisoner of conscience in China.

During his university years, he studied at the School of Music of Southwest University. Although he worked briefly after graduation, in 2015 he felt deeply called after coming to believe in Jesus Christ, and consequently devoted himself to theological training. He subsequently became a full-time preacher and entered Zion Church to serve; during this period, he not only devoted himself enthusiastically and faithfully to the church’s evangelistic ministry, but also had the good fortune to meet and marry Tao Tingting, a sister who shared his faith, and they had two sons after marriage; because the Chinese Communist regime has long imposed many restrictions and controls on religious belief, and in September 2025 the Chinese authorities further issued new religious regulations specifically targeting and cracking down heavily on house churches unwilling to join the “Three-Self” Church, explicitly prohibiting all house churches from conducting online or offline evangelistic and religious worship activities; consequently, beginning on October 9, 2025, multiple pastors, co-workers, and key believers from branches of Beijing Zion Church across the country were successively subjected to surprise raids by the Chinese Communist authorities; nearly 30 people were summoned by police, went missing, or were criminally detained, while worship and meeting venues of the various churches were sealed, property was searched, and the families of some co-workers were threatened and harassed; on October 11, he was also arrested at his home in Chengdu, Sichuan, through a joint operation by Chengdu police and Beihai police, and his home was searched; although more than a dozen people were subsequently released one after another, the 18 Zion Church pastors and co-workers were formally arrested together by the police of Yinhai District, Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on November 18, 2025, on suspicion of “illegally using information networks”;

On June 18, 2026, after his case had undergone three criminal investigations by the Yinhai District police of Beihai City, nine pastors and co-workers were finally released on bail pending trial, while he and eight other church leaders—Jin Mingri, Wang Lin, Gao Yingjia, Liu Zhenbin, Yin Huibin, Wu Qiuyu, Wang Cong (female), and Wang Zhong—remained in continued detention. Their charges were also changed to “illegal business operations” and “fraud,” and the case was transferred to the Yinhai District People’s Procuratorate of Beihai City for review and prosecution; on July 4, following mediation in diplomatic relations between the United States and China, Pastor Jin Mingri was finally released and flew to the United States to reunite with his family, while the other eight pastors and leaders remained unreleased; on July 17, the eight of them were formally indicted by the Yinhai District People’s Procuratorate of Beihai City, with six of them reportedly indicted on suspicion of “fraud”; as of now, the cases of the eight have been transferred to the Yinhai District Court and have entered the trial stage; it is understood that when he was arrested, his wife was already pregnant, and on June 4 his third child was born. His wife, children, parents, and other family members hope and appeal to the government to release him without charge as soon as possible so that he can return home to care for his wife and three young children.

He is currently being detained at Beihai No. 2 Detention Center (Pingyang, Gaode Town, Yinhai District, Beihai City, Guangxi Autonomous Region; postal code: 536005).