When Mormon Missionaries Helped 'Boat People'

This is hardly the only time in modern Mormon history when Latter-day Saints have addressed the plight of refugees.

In the 1980s, Marion D. Hanks was serving as an LDS area authority in Hong Kong during the time of the so-called "boat people" â?? Vietnamese who had taken to the seas after the war in their country â?? and others in Southeast Asia seeking refuge from political upheaval in their nations.