Stranded Mayflower Christians Need Our Help
Commentary
A Christian group has fled South Korea due to threats of deportation and is now in Thailand. The group of Chinese house Christians is called the Mayflower Church, after the pilgrims’ famous ship that landed in Plymouth.
Like the Pilgrims, the Mayflower Christians are on the run—this time from China, where regime harassment of the group, originally known as the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church (SHRC), reached unbearable levels.
Christianity and other religions in China are repressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), sometimes by knocking crosses off churches or insisting on a compliant leadership that preaches according to CCP doctrines and arbitrary rules….