Most of the members of a delegation from China, invited to bring the Meizhou Mazu statue to Taiwan for a religious event, were not "religious personnel" and unable to provide suitable documentation, so the government denied them entry to the country, Minister of the Interior Lin Yu-chang (林右昌) said on Thursday.
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