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Delegation from Vietnam tours Utah sites and talks religious freedom and families with LDS First Presidency

A delegation headed by Vietnam’s Committee for Religious Affairs was in Utah this week, meeting with members of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as government and academic leaders.

The group toured the Church’s Family History Library, Welfare Square, Humanitarian Center, Bishop’s Central Storehouse and Brigham Young University during its Tuesday-through-Thursday visit.

“We have longstanding cooperative relationships with the Committee on Religious Affairs and other government officials in Vietnam,” said Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who accompanied the delegation. “We appreciate those relationships continuing and deepening with the visit of this important delegation.