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 18 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

18 Jun, 2024 19:06 EDT

Caribbean Family & Children Society & Culture

Evangelical Alliance opposes moves to change abortion laws in Antigua

By Chris Eyte

The Government of Antigua & Barbuda has deferred the issue of legalizing abortions when a mother’s life is not endangered to a law court after the country’s evangelical alliance opposed moves by pro-choice campaigners claiming that the country’s historic abortion laws are unconstitutional.
17 Jun, 2024 09:28 EDT

Europe Religious Freedom

Study shows hostility toward Christians in UK

By Chris Eyte

More than half of Christians in the United Kingdom experienced hostility and ridicule for their faith in Christ, a survey shows, even as the country’s top police chief admitted to “gaps” in hate crime laws.
16 Jun, 2024 00:06 EDT

US & Canada Oceania Middle East Latin America Europe Caribbean Asia Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture Family & Children

World Refugee Sunday: Refugee rights expert says Church uniquely placed to offer hope in burgeoning global crisis

By Heather Pubols Chris Eyte

Tom Albinson has been working with refugees since 1980 and currently serves as President of the International Association for Refugees, a ministry he founded. He is also involved in the Refugee Highway Partnership, a network of churches, agencies and individuals serving forcibly displaced people. Christian Daily International was given an exclusive interview with Albinson for the occasion of World Refugee Sunday, which falls on the Sundays before and after World Refugee Day on June 20.
14 Jun, 2024 10:12 EDT

Middle East Europe Religious Freedom

High Court in Türkiye upholds expulsion of nine foreign Christians

By Chris Eyte

Türkiye's highest judicial body, the Constitutional Court, on June 7 upheld the government’s expulsion of nine foreign Christians in what rights advocates said was an effort to rid the country of Christianity.
13 Jun, 2024 15:06 EDT

US & Canada Oceania Middle East Latin America Europe Caribbean Asia Africa Family & Children Church & Missions

Ministries partner to reach thousands of prisoners, families and children around the world with the gospel

By Chris Eyte

A massive evangelistic effort has been agreed between two global ministries now looking to distribute 90,000 audio and visual Bibles to 700,000 prisoners in 70 countries over the next five years, with extra support planned for 90,000 vulnerable children and 40,000 caregivers. Prison Fellowship International (PFI) and Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH) announced the joint renewal plan to share the good news of Jesus Christ with prisoners and prisoners’ families taking part in two of PFI’s frontline pr
13 Jun, 2024 14:06 EDT

Caribbean Society & Culture

Christians in Antigua approach prime minister to voice deep unease at cannabis smoking in churches

By Chris Eyte

At a meeting with Prime Minister Gaston Browne, The Antigua Barbuda Evangelical Alliance (ABEA) has voiced deep unease about cannabis drug users disrespecting sacred spaces on the sovereign island nation. Representatives of ABEA met with Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Friday (June 7) to express frustrations about people smoking the powerful herb in public on the islands, including at sites and during events considered sacred to the Christian faith.
13 Jun, 2024 11:06 EDT

Europe Breaking News

Evangelical body in France calls for prayer before parliamentary snap-election

By Chris Eyte

The National Council of French Evangelicals (CNEF) has called on the country’s evangelicals to pray following President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly and call a two-round snap election on June 30 and July 7. European parliamentary elections earlier this month resulted in a boost to the far-right party National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, with 32 percent of votes, as previously reported by Christian Daily International. Macron’s own Renaissance party had been left
12 Jun, 2024 13:06 EDT

Europe Society & Culture

Majority Christian town offer safe haven to Jews as terrorism threat increases in the Netherlands

By Chris Eyte

A town in the Netherlands inhabited by a majority of Christian residents is offering a refuge to Jewish people who feel unsafe in the country as the terrorism threat has increased. The local council in Urk, formerly an island within the province of Flevoland, made the publicly open invitation to allow Jews to settle in the town, set in the heart of the so-called Dutch Bibleland.
12 Jun, 2024 10:06 EDT

US & Canada Europe Society & Culture

Christian athletes ministry criticizes Olympic LGBT-affirming guidelines for media that dictate to "not assume a person’s gender identity"

By Chris Eyte

Latest guidelines by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer push LGBT propaganda onto media and other stakeholders, according to 4 WINDS USA, a worldwide sports ministry, helping athletes in track and field. The ministry has issued a damning response to the “Portrayal Guidelines” issued by the IOC for the Olympics, highlighting that GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, helped to write the third edition of the guidelines that were crea
12 Jun, 2024 10:06 EDT

Europe Society & Culture

Oldest Christian liturgical book with 1 Peter and Jonah sold for close to US$4m

By Chris Eyte

The earliest known Christian liturgical book with the earliest complete texts of 1 Peter and Jonah went under the hammer yesterday, June 11, at Christie’s auction house in London. An unnamed bidder bought it for £3,065,000 (approximately US$3.94 million), according to reports. Called the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, the Coptic manuscript on papyrus paper dates from the mid-third century to fourth century. “The earliest known book in private hands and one of the earliest books in existence,” according t
11 Jun, 2024 07:06 EDT

Middle East Family & Children

“I want my child”: amid ongoing war, Israeli soldiers call ministry to prevent abortion of their unborn babies

By Chris Eyte

Stories of Israeli babies being saved from abortion are surfacing from the loathsome agony of death and destruction in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War. Stories of Israeli babies being saved from abortion are surfacing amid the loathsome agony of death and destruction in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, as soldiers experience a change in perspective. For the past 23 years, Ruth Tidhar has worked for EFRAT, a pro-life organization in Israel, named after the prophetess sister of Moses in the Bible,
11 Jun, 2024 05:06 EDT

Europe Society & Culture

Long-time CEO of UK Premier Christian Radio Peter Kerridge dies, "do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope"

By Chris Eyte

Visionary leadership, warmth and empathy. These are among some of the key characteristics that Peter Kerridge, long-time Chief Executive Officer of the U.K.’s Premier Christian Radio, will be remembered for, according to tributes that are coming in after his passing on Saturday. A statement on the Premier Christian Radio website referenced 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 that reads, Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like t

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