Wang Yi is the pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church from 2005 until his arrest in 2018 for “inciting subversion of state power” and “illegal business operations.” At the height of the Sinicization of Christianity, Wang Yi released “A Declaration for the Sake of the Christian Faith,” which over 400 house church pastors and leaders signed with their real names. Since police arrested Pastor Wang Yi on December 9, 2018, as officers blocked information about him, the outside world knows little about his situation in prison.