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

6 Aug, 2024 20:08 EDT

Europe Breaking News

UK Riots: Christian Police Association calls on believers to support police, requesting 'Prayer! Prayer! Prayer!'

By Chris Eyte

The Christian Police Association (CPA) has pleaded with followers of Jesus Christ to engage in prayer and support police officers dealing with very violent confrontations as widespread riots stirred by extremist groups continue to cause mayhem in cities across the U.K. The riots, believed to have been mainly instigated by right-wing extremists, but also involving some left-wing groups, began after the horrific murder of three girls stabbed to death in a children’s holiday club in Southport on Mo
5 Aug, 2024 07:08 EDT

Oceania Church & Missions

Overcoming clash of cultures, ministry seeks to build bridges between Aboriginal churches and the wider Church in Australia

By Chris Eyte

Unlearn whatever preconceived ideas you have about Aboriginal people and their communities - and sit down with an Aboriginal or other First Nations church leader to spend time listening, absorbing and becoming culturally enlightened. That is the advice for non-indigenous evangelicals given by Sandra Dumas, Senior Pastor of Ganggalah Church and Training Centre with her husband Will, based in Tweed Heads South, Northern Rivers.
2 Aug, 2024 07:08 EDT

Asia Society & Culture Family & Children Church & Missions

Survey reveals challenges, struggles of Christian youth in India, nation with largest number of young people in the world

By Chris Eyte

The Evangelical Fellowship of India has released its 2023-2024, 56-page ‘Survey of Youth Issues Among Christian Young People’ with data collected by Christ’s Love For All (CLFA) Youth Movement, focusing on the contemporaneous post-pandemic challenges and influences on Christian youth in the country.
1 Aug, 2024 07:08 EDT

Europe Church & Missions

Evangelicals in France work together to share the gospel at Paris Olympics 2024

By Chris Eyte

French evangelicals are motivated to share the life changing news of Jesus Christ with countrymen and visitors alike as the Paris Olympics 2024 draws thousands to the French capital for the world’s largest sporting event. Ensemble 2024 - a collaborative Christian enterprise made up of churches, associations, clubs and individuals in France - aims to bring the good news about Jesus to as many people as possible, while also hoping to leave a long-lasting legacy for evangelism in the country.
31 Jul, 2024 08:07 EDT

US & Canada Society & Culture Family & Children

On World Day Against Trafficking, Canadian evangelical body highlights children as primary victims

By Chris Eyte

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has marked the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30 by focusing on the most vulnerable of people: children.
30 Jul, 2024 09:07 EDT

Europe Society & Culture

French evangelical body accepts apology after Paris Olympics drag queen parody of Last Supper, emphasizes need to share gospel

By Chris Eyte

The Conseil National des Évangéliques de France (CNEF) said it has accepted an apology from the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympics after a drag queen parody of the Last Supper was shown at the opening ceremony last Friday. “We accept this apology, aspiring together for these games to be more of an opportunity for unity than for division,” said Cloarec.
30 Jul, 2024 08:07 EDT

Oceania Society & Culture Family & Children Church & Missions

Church leaders respond to New Zealand Abuse in Care report, words alone cannot 'mend the wounds'

By Chris Eyte

Church leaders in New Zealand have been responding to the publication of a devastating Abuse in Care report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry recounting the abuse and neglect suffered by many thousands of vulnerable children and adults in the hands of church and state institutions from 1950 to1999. Entitled Whanaketia, meaning ‘Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light’, the report contained a challenge to faith leaders to apologize.
29 Jul, 2024 18:07 EDT

Caribbean Society & Culture

'We are not just physical, we are spiritual', says St Lucia police commissioner during celebratory launch of new police chaplaincy

By Chris Eyte

A new Police Chaplaincy Service has been launched by the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) on the island of St Lucia in the Caribbean, with a population of around 180,000 people. “We are not just physical, we are spiritual and we ought to understand this and the sooner we understand this the sooner we’ll be able to cope [with] the challenges that I can tell you it’s only by the grace of God that I can stand there and I shall not be moved,” said Commissioner of Police Crusita Descartes Peliu
29 Jul, 2024 07:07 EDT

Europe Family & Children

As marriage rates decrease in France, Protestant bodies highlight importance of biblical marriage, care for vulnerable in families

By Chris Eyte

Evangelical Christian bodies in France have made public statements that the Biblical concept of families is the basic tenet for society, for learning social relations and to protect the vulnerable such as children, as latest figures show a sharp decrease in popularity for marriage in the country. Statistics published by Statista Research Department on July 23 reveal that the proportion of married couples in France has been declining since the mid-2000s. In 2008, the figure was 47.8 percent and t
29 Jul, 2024 04:07 EDT

Oceania Church & Missions

Report shows hundreds of new churches planted in Australia since 2011

By Chris Eyte

Some 428 new churches have been planted in states and territories across Australia in the past 13 years, according to latest data figures from a nationwide survey - and 168 of those since 2021. National Church Life Survey (NCLS) Research published the results this month, July, following the “snapshot” from the New Churches Database taken on April 12 2024.
27 Jul, 2024 04:07 EDT

Europe Society & Culture

As Paris Olympics 2024 kick off, anti-trafficking network calls on Christians to help combat sexual exploitation

By Chris Eyte

As the 2024 Olympics have officially started in Paris, France, an evangelical anti-human trafficking network is calling attention to the often unseen side effects of sporting events: a significant increase in exploitation.
26 Jul, 2024 06:07 EDT

Oceania Church & Missions

Jubilation in the Pacific island of Mangaia celebrating 200 years since Christian missionaries arrived

By Chris Eyte

Joyful islanders and visitors in Mangaia, the most southern of the Cook Islands in the Pacific, recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of Christianity arriving on the island, also known as Auau Enua.

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