Britain’s Barclays bank has agreed to pay a Christian charity, Core Issues Trust (CIT), £20,000 after the bank closed down the charity’s bank account in response to a vicious online campaign against the charity, Premier Christian News reports.

The campaign against the charity, which started on Twitter in 2020, culminated in charity employees receiving death threats from activists who were accusing the charity of being involved in conversion therapy.

The campaign also targeted Barclays bank, which resulted in it closing down CIT’s bank account in 2020.

With the aid of the Christian Legal Centre, CIT launched a court case against Barclay arguing ‘unlawful discrimination.’

Without offering an apology or admitting any fault or discrimination, a week before the case was to hit the court, Barclay offered to pay the charity £21,500 along with yet-to-be-calculated legal costs to resolve the case, which CIT accepted. Barclay has also not reinstated the charity’s account.

CIT noted that during this period of troubles which saw its social media accounts, including Facebook, also closed down, PayPal and Mailchimp, which handles its mailing lists, also canceled CIT’s accounts, Premier News reported.

But it was not all bad news as CIT’s donations doubled during this period. And along with that over 75,000 people signed a petition ‘protesting’ Barclay’s decision to cancel the charity’s bank account.

READ: Barclays bank pays out £20K for shutting down Christian charity account

The incident provides another perspective on what the Apostle John saw happening in the end times when people would not be able to buy or sell if they did not take the mark of the beast.

¹⁶ And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, ^[a]to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17 NASV)