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.[1]

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."[2]

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  1. ^ Praying for Cabinet crisis, Aftenposten, December 2, 2005.
  2. ^ NORWEGIAN PRINCESS MÄRTHA'S NEW COURSE OFFERING: Communicating with Angels 101, cgh, Spiegel online, August 14, 2007.
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