On November 27th, Thailand’s border police stormed the Shekinah (Glory to God) orphanage in Mae Hong Son Province near the Burma border, put the names of all the residents on a register and asked them to prepare for deportation.

After fleeing Burma in June, the children were temporarily moved to another orphanage closeby. However, due to the spread of Malaria in that orphanage and the subsequent death of one girl, they were quickly shifted to the new location. It has been just a week since the 76 children (between the ages of six and sixteen) were moved to the new location, around 100 miles from the orphanage on the Burma/Thailand border.

Please pray that the Thai officials would have mercy on these children and allow them to stay. The best situation would be for the orphans to be granted permanant immigrant status.

Thank you once again for your prayers and your action on behalf of the persecuted.

I am not sure if "praying to god" will convince the Thai officials to allow this children to stay.

Did you inform Red cross or any other organisation providing emergency help?

Or did you try to contact foreign media to pay global attention on this matter.

Elcent,

Maybe move it to "Thailand news Clippings"

Cheers

The un-included remainder of the "news" produced by International Christian Concern, at persecution.org, from which the OP is derived:

Burma's Christian Refugees Face Deportation From Thailand

http://www.persecution.org/suffering/ICCne...code=11299&

which, at least, includes recognition that as illegal immigrants they are subject to deportation. Same as every other nation does with illegal immigrants and given that, according to the "news article", Thailand has 140,000 of these illegal immigrants, it's not surprising they face deportation.