An East Texas-based organization that played a key role in securing the release and resettlement of the Mayflower Church — persecuted Chinese Christians detained in Thailand, who eventually relocated to Texas — hopes to do the same for Vietnamese Christians in a similar situation.
Freedom Seekers International has worked more than two months to help free members of the Vietnamese Highlands Montagnard Christian Church from immigration detention centers in Thailand.
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To escape religious persecution, members of the church fled Vietnam on foot in 2019, entering Thailand without passports or other documentation to seek the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
“And like the Mayflower Church, their journey to an immigration detention center in Thailand was for the same reasons, persecution because their home government did not want them to worship Jesus, followed by arrest by the Thailand immigration police due to illegal residence in Thailand,” wrote Tim Conkling, a Taiwan-based missionary with Asia Mission Partners and founder of Connecting Families.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Ken Camp and originally published by the Baptist Standard.
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