Jan Hanvold (born 1951) 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]
Hanvold has a dubious reputation as a businessman,[3][4][5][6] and his resume includes a series of bankruptcies and a jail sentence.[7] He has been critizised for raising obscene amounts of money through his religious media projects,[8][9][10] 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.[7][11][12]. Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian christian organizations, according to official tax figures [13].