Jan Hanvold

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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 criticized 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] In 2010 Hanvold accused Norwegian fundamenalist Christians of embezzlement, claiming that by donating less than one tenth of their income as tithe to Christian organizations this group is stealing 8 billion Norwegian kroner from God annually.[13] Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian Christian organizations, according to official tax figures.[14]

References

  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.
  3. ↑ NRK: Undersøker pengerot (downloaded September 28, 2008)
  4. ↑ Vårt land: Få stiller spørsmål (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  5. ↑ Vårt land: Tilsyn truer med å kaste Hanvold (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  6. ↑ Vårt land: Spør om Visjons eiendomskjøp (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Hegnar Online: Predikant Jan Hanvold er på farten igjen som pengeinnsampler (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  8. ↑ Vårt land: Sampet inn 175 millioner på ni år (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  9. ↑ E24: Betal penger, bli velsignet (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  10. ↑ Vårt land: Ber om millioner, lover velsignelse(downloaded 28 September 2008)
  11. ↑ Bygdeposten: Kjøper eiendom for nødhjelpspenger (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  12. ↑ Vårt land: Ber Hanvold dokumentere mer (downloaded 28 September 2008)
  13. ↑ Vårt land: - Kristenfolket underslår 8 milliarder i året (downloaded 10 July 2012)
  14. ↑ Dagen: Hanvold tjener best i Kristen-Norge (lesedato 23. oktober 2011)
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