Chinese Christians detained in Thailand, freed to travel to US

BANGKOK, Thailand: More than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church, the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, also known as the Mayflower Church, were detained last week in Thailand but are now continuing on to the US.

The group left Thailand on the night of April 6, said a colonel in Thailand’s police immigration division.

One day earlier, Thai police said the 63 members of the church, who have been in Thailand since September, would be…