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.
An insurance company in England has ordered a Christian motorist to remove “Jesus Loves You” and “Jesus Loves You V Much” stickers from his car or face invalidation of his policy,.
A business tycoon with political ambitions is planning to build the world’s tallest statue of Jesus Christ in his home country of Armenia.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has promised “action” in redressing the evils of the historic transatlantic slave trade.
The new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has indicated that assisted dying legislation should not be debated in Parliament yet, arguing that social care and palliative care need to be “fixed” first.
As debates rage across Europe over attempts by some countries to introduce assisted dying laws, Latvia’s first hospice day center for palliative care has been hailed as a success, raising hopes of a national roll-out.
Canadian evangelicals are being urged to contact their local MPs to express concern over plans to extend assisted suicide to people with mental illness.
A new national policy in Canada forbids military personnel, including chaplains, from making references to God or any religious tradition at public events, prompting objections from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC).
Mission Australia says better data must lead to stronger action on housing and homelessness.
Advocating for assisted suicide on the likelihood of a patient dying within six months has been robustly challenged by a leading palliative care expert who says that no diagnostic tools, tests or clinical examinations can reliably predict such a timeframe.
The French evangelical alliance CNEF (Conseil National des Évangéliques de France) has issued a rallying cry to evangelicals to mobilise a “spirit of compassion, prayer and support” to communities suffering after devastating wildfires engulfed large areas of France this summer.
The Evangelical Alliance in Germany (Evangelische Allianz in Deutschland - EAD) is celebrating its legacy this year with commemorative events and a public statement emphasising that peacebuilding is more important than ever amid the continuing war in Ukraine and fears it could spill over into other parts of the continent.
A report jointly published by British Christian think tank Theos and the Bible Society in the United Kingdom has revealed that becoming a mother has a wide-ranging effect on every aspect of her life.
