Barclays tries to strike out Christian ministry’s legal case
from Christian Concern:
A Christian ministry that received death threats and had its account cancelled by Barclays Bank faces having its legal case ‘struck out’ at a hearing in Belfast this week.
Core Issues Trust (CIT), which is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was notified in July 2020 that its banking facilities with top-ranking Stonewall employer, Barclays, would be stopped, following a coordinated harassment campaign by LGBT activists.
CIT is a non-profit Christian ministry, based in Northern Ireland, which supports men and women who voluntarily seek change in their sexual preference, expression and/or gender identity.
Following the harassment campaign, Barclays appeared to have capitulated to demands to cancel CIT’s account after sustained pressure was placed on them for providing banking services to the Christian group while also being the headline sponsor for London’s Gay Pride parade.
During this period, CIT received over 300 nuisance phone calls and numerous intimidating messages from activists, including a text to its chief executive, Dr Mike Davidson, which expressed a hope that staff family members would be raped and killed.
Over 70,000 people have signed a petition calling on Barclays to reinstate the account and to stop discriminating against the Christian ministry.
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