Jan Hanvold
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Jan Hanvold is a Norwegian
fundamentalist televangelist pastor. Hanvold is also owner of television station "TV-Visjon Norge" (Vision Norge) that is carried throughout Scandinavia
and much of Europe. Hanvold announced that he was praying for the failure of the Norwegian coalition government in 2005.
Hanvold has criticized the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise's plans to open a private school, known as Astarte Education, teaching students how to communicate with angels. Hanvold accused the princess of "blasphemy" and said she was "an emissary from hell."
Hanvold has a dubious reputation as a businessman, and his resume includes a series of bankruptcies and a jail sentence. He has been critizised for raising obscene amounts of money through his religious media projects, and scrutiny of these projects has discovered that the funds he raises for charity are scantily spent on the purposes for which they are raised.. Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian christian organizations, according to official tax figures .
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
fundamentalist televangelist pastor. Hanvold is also owner of television station "TV-Visjon Norge" (Vision Norge) that is carried throughout Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
and much of Europe. Hanvold announced that he was praying for the failure of the Norwegian coalition government in 2005.
Hanvold has criticized the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise's plans to open a private school, known as Astarte Education, teaching students how to communicate with angels. Hanvold accused the princess of "blasphemy" and said she was "an emissary from hell."
Hanvold has a dubious reputation as a businessman, and his resume includes a series of bankruptcies and a jail sentence. He has been critizised for raising obscene amounts of money through his religious media projects, and scrutiny of these projects has discovered that the funds he raises for charity are scantily spent on the purposes for which they are raised.. Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian christian organizations, according to official tax figures .