Pastor's Wife Fights for Husband's Freedom While Rebuilding Life in Exile

In the long history of faith meeting state power, Cherie Geng's story is both singular and ancient: a woman separated from her detained husband by the machinery of a government that moves against belief, forced to rebuild her life in exile while refusing to stop fighting for his freedom. Chinese authorities swept up dozens of church members in a crackdown that reflects an intensifying pattern of religious restriction across China, scattering families across borders and into uncertainty. What Geng carries — the dual burden of survival and advocacy, of private grief and public witness — is the h