Christians left âin deep crisisâ by closure of churches in lockdown By James Mulholland STOPPING public religious worship during the pandemic has placed Christians in Scotland into a “deep crisis” and the Government is responsible of a “failure of candour” about why it closed churches, a court has heard. Advocate Janys Scott QC told judge Lord Braid that the pandemic has highlighted a “irreconcilable conflict” which believers have between obeying the State and God. Lord Braid heard that this tension has caused 27 church ministers to instruct Ms Scott to raise a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.