The brutal killing of a pastor and his family has caused the church in Darfur to grow rapidly, it was reported in March.
Pastor Stephen lay asleep at home after a day of open-air evangelistic ministry in one of the slums of Darfur, a mainly Muslim area of Sudan. He had prayed with 56 new believers who made the decision that day, 1 March, to leave Islam and follow Christ.
Masked men
Soon after 1am at night, six Muslim extremists, their faces masked and carrying machetes, broke into the family home, rousing Stephen, his wife and daughters. They asked Stephen why he had continued to preach about Jesus although they had warned him several times to stop. Stephen’s answer was simply to tell them about the Lord.
