Chris Eyte

International Correspondent

Chris Eyte serves as International Correspondent for CDI, covering Europe, the United States & Canada, the Caribbean and Oceania. He has worked in journalism and copywriting for some 17 years, mostly for Christian media publications in the UK, the US and Australia. He is an English graduate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland where he was President of the St Andrews Literary Society. In his free time, he enjoys writing devotionals and runs his own blog (hislovefrees.life). Chris has traveled extensively, living briefly in South Africa and Belgium, and now resides in South Wales in the UK with his wife and children.

Articles by Chris Eyte

9 months ago

Europe 9 months ago

U.K. Christians acquitted after arrests for preaching on homosexuality

By Chris Eyte

Two U.K. street preachers facing criminal charges for comments against homosexuality outside a witchcraft shop were freed early this month after a court dropped all charges.
10 months ago

Europe 10 months ago

Islamist defacing of Christian sites shocks French villagers

By Chris Eyte

Villagers at a cemetery in Dordogne Department in southwest France were horrified that vandals this week painted Islamist slogans in French and Arabic on 58 graves, a church door, a World War I memorial and tomb art depicting the Crucifixion.
10 months ago

Europe 10 months ago

Zones excluding ‘confusing’ behavior at German abortion clinics proposed

By Chris Eyte

German parliamentarians seek to ban Christians and other right-to-life advocates from standing near abortion clinics under a draft law proceeding through the Bundestag.
10 months ago

Europe 10 months ago

UK math teacher banned for ‘misgendering’ appeals to High Court

By Chris Eyte

A math teacher banned from teaching by the U.K. Education Secretary for saying, “Well done, girls,” to a group of students that included one who identified as a boy is appealing the ruling at the High Court.
10 months ago

Europe 10 months ago

UK school worker wins right to appeal firing over LGBTQ opposition

By Chris Eyte

A school employee fired for social media posts opposing LGBTQ+ materials in class has won the right to take her dismissal to the U.K. Court of Appeal.
11 months ago

Europe 11 months ago

UK Christian convicted for holding Bible verse outside abortion clinic

By Chris Eyte

A Christian in the United Kingdom vowed to be jailed rather than pay costs after a judge on Feb. 2 found him guilty of breaching a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) for holding up a Bible verse sign near an abortion clinic.
11 months ago

Europe 11 months ago

Regulator refuses to ban chaplain in UK for speaking against LGBTQ+

By Chris Eyte

A criminal records regulator in England has refused to ban a chaplain accused under terrorism laws of speaking against LGBTQ+ identity politics at a high school, but his appeal of his dismissal is still pending.
12 months ago

Europe 12 months ago

Anti-Christian hate crimes in Western Europe rising, report says

By Chris Eyte

Overall, hate crimes against Christians escalated from a previous record of 519 incidents in 2021 to 748 cases in 2022 within 30 European countries, an increase of 44 per cent.
12 months ago

Europe 12 months ago

USCIRF slams new blasphemy law in Denmark

By Chris Eyte

Denmark has changed its penal code to criminalize “inappropriate treatment(s)” of texts of high religious importance, thus introducing blasphemy legislation that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) criticized as “the wrong approach.”