ChinaAid Applauds Recent Political Calls To Action For Mayflower Church

The ChinaAid team welcomes efforts from prominent political leaders in the United States and Taiwan for the resettlement of the Mayflower Church. 

Thank you to everyone who continues to pray for these brave church members, share their stories, and partner to support them financially. 

• On Friday, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul published a letter he sent to Department of State officials regarding the Mayflower Church. "In this group affectionately known as the Mayflower Church, there are now 16 families, with 64 total members, in Thailand awaiting response on refugee applications first submitted to the UNCHR on September 5, 2022. 
  
  "Although all families have been issued a refugee seeker ID, so far only two of the families have been granted a refugee determination interview...The United States must intervene to help ensure the safety of the group, protect them against refoulement and continued harassment by the PRC, and support their prompt assessment for protection as refugees"
  
  
• You Si-Kun, President of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, wrote about the church on Facebook.
  
  "Therefore, in addition to echoing Chairman McCaul’s action, we also ask the [Taiwan] executive branch to care about helping these persecuted Chinese religious refugees and to show concrete actions to help them, because democracy, freedom, and human rights are common values in Taiwan and the world!"