Penang Adventist Hospital Hosts Children’s Charity Heart Surgeries

The first three of 11 kids have successfully undergone corrective heart surgery at Penang Adventist Hospital in Malaysia as part of the international charity program, Children’s HeartLink. The first candidate was six-year-old Michel Lim Yew Peng from Kuala Lumpur. After volunteer doctors from the United States corrected the problem between Michel’s pulmonary artery and aorta, her mother Cecelia Lim said this was “her best ever Mother’s Day gift.” Doctors say there is a need for heart specialists in southeast Asia. The operations are sponsored by Adventist’s Heart Patients Fund, the Rotary Club of Penang, the Rotary Club of New Jersey, the Wong Keng Fei Fund and the Society for Sabah Heart Fund. [ANN Staff]

AWR Begins Uyghur Broadcasts

Adventist World Radio, the shortwave service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is now broadcasting in the Uyghur language to northwest China. The Uyghur, a Turkic people inhabiting northwestern China and Kazakhstan, constitute a majority of the population of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.  The majority of the Uyghur people are followers of Islam, though in the past they have practiced Buddhism, Christianity and other religions. Uyghur is one of 60 languages being used by AWR to communicate the Gospel message around the world. More information is available at www.awr.org. [Ben Schoun/AWR]