State Department played an important part in working with Thai officials to have the Christian refugees sent to the U.S. Religious freedom activists said the U.S. and were awaiting resettlement in Canada, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Thai authorities had also previously deported Chinese dissidents who were recognized as refugees by the U.N. Thailand has in the past repatriated Chinese nationals wanted by China, including members of the Uyghur ethnic group, a mostly Turkic Muslim minority that has faced religious and racial persecution in the Xinjiang Province on China's northwestern frontier.
What we don't know is which country they will be deported to," a representative had said. "Within the next week, they will definitely be deported. In recent days, Thai police took the group into custody and reportedly planned to deport them because their visas had expired. The group is nicknamed "Mayflower Church" after the English ship that carried Pilgrims to North America in search of religious freedom. The Christians, members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, fled China three years ago, first to South Korea and then to Thailand as they sought asylum in the U.S.ĬBN News visited the congregation in Bangkok last year to tell their story. He confirmed beforehand to CBN News that the refugees were heading to the Dallas-Forth Worth airport Friday night. Bob Fu, founder, and president of China Aid, helped organize the campaign for freedom. One family from the group remained in Thailand because the mother is pregnant and they were unable to make the journey until she gives birth.ĭr. Most of the 63 members of a Chinese church fleeing persecution from the communist regime arrived at an airport in Texas on Friday night after finally being granted safe haven in the United States.
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