I went to the Czech Republic this year on a mission through music choir trip. We sang in churches, concert halls, opera houses, and on the street. We had no protests (although the police did not like it when we were singing with the windows open and may have moved our group down the street one time).
We sang secular and religous songs. We performed together with a French choir and a Czech student orchestra. The orchestra conductor tried to limit the number of religous songs in the program. Some people were drawn to us but we did not experience any outward hostility from any who may have been offended or angered.
That's great. I was in Budapest in July on a personal vacation and I met my second or third cousins. Even though I've been told there are still some 50-60 percent of the population who want Communism back, they are hungry for the gospel there. There was a Bible in my hotel room. I could talk about Jesus to anyone that understood me, but more than that, I noticed many were using terms like "Thank God" "God willing", etc. Those terms weren't used during the time the Communists were in power, people were too afraid. When I went to the apartment house where my relatives used to live to see the place my great grandparents would have known before they came here, there was a pastor listed on the apartment directory.
My husband wanted to go and see Vienna since it was, I think, 3 hours away. It was rich and beautiful but I discerned a spiritual oppression and I couldn't wait to get back to Budapest. I wanted to kiss the ground when I got to the Hungarian border. Recently I found out that witnessing or travelling as missionaries is against the law in Austria, so what you did in Czechoslavakia couldn't be done in Austria. So go figure, doors open and doors close. Ironic that Austria needs our prayers more than Eastern Europe.