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.
Discrimination and violence against Christian minorities in Kosovo continues to be widespread despite official laws in the country protecting freedom of religion.
An artist in the U.K. has taken legal action against a local council for banning her art exhibit and reporting a “hate crime” to police after she said in a private conversation that sex transition harms children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Conseil National des Évangéliques de France (CNEF), the leading evangelical alliance in France, has called upon evangelical leaders to coordinate worship meetings in the country on October 5, 2025. In a press release, CNEF stated its main objective for the worship day as simply celebrating Jesus Christ and bearing witness to the good news about Him. It is hoped the event will be complemented with various concerts, youth gatherings and evangelism activities.
