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Bank Terminates Client’s Account After He Complains About Rainbow-Themed App

The third largest bank in Canada, Scotiabank, has shut down a customers account and told him to take his business elsewhere after he inquired* how he could remove the company’s rainbow-themed banking app.

As reported by Rebel News, Gary Duke of Grand Prairie banked with Scotiabank for over a decade and was otherwise happy with the service, even having his mortgage at one point with the multinational company. When Scotiabank updated their app for PRIDE month to reflect their love of all things gay, Duke spoke to assistant Branch Manager Mitchell Tofte via email to complain and request information on how to uninstall the app.

“I just tried to get online with an do some banking online and there was a rainbow app. So I said “is there any way to get this rainbow app off my phone?”

Rather than help him uninstall it, after some unspecified back-and-forth, he was ultimately greeted by this message:

According to Scotiabank, they’re been “recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality”. Scotiabank achieved a perfect 100 percent score on the HRC’s most recent Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a nationally-recognized benchmarking report on corporate policies and practices in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) workplace equality.”

*We’re not privy to the rest of their conversation. He may have said some un-PC things about their LGBTQ allyship which may have contributed to his boot, or it may have been straight up the way he described it. We’ve reached out to Duke for clarification.

New Chinese Law Bans the Word ‘Christ’ on Social Media, Says it Causes ‘Incitement’

(Christian Headlines) China has banned “Christ” and other religious words from social media apps under a new policy that went into effect on March 1. According to a new report, the policy also requires licensing and training to post Christian and religious content on the internet

The Chinese Communist Party’s new law – dubbed the “Measures for the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services” – prohibits individuals and organizations from posting religious information on the internet unless they have first obtained permission from a provincial government department, according to China Aid, which monitors religious freedom within the country.

Early Rain Covenant Church, a Chinese congregation, recently discovered the far-reaching impact of the new law. Using the messaging app WeChat, a church member tried posting the names of eight books for members of a reading group, asking them to vote on their favorite. Among the titles: The Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til, Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot and The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis.

But the WeChat app rejected the post, saying the word “Christ” was not allowed.

“The word ‘Christ’ you are trying to publish violates regulations on Internet Information Services, including but not limited to the following categories: pornography, gambling, and drug abuse; excessive marketing; incitement.”

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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Michael Foust and published on Christian Headlines.