Jan Hanvold

Norwegian televangelist pastor

Jan Kåre Hanvold (born 29 April 1951) is a Norwegian televangelist pastor. Hanvold is the founder and owner of the Christian television station Visjon Norge that is carried throughout Scandinavia.

Business

Hanvold has a dubious reputation as a businessman,^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] and his resume includes a series of bankruptcies and a jail sentence.^[5] He has been criticized for raising obscene amounts of money through his religious media projects,^[6]^[7]^[8] in 2016 the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK estimated that his media projects had raised more than one billion kr in 15 years.^[9] Scrutiny of these projects has discovered that the funds he raises for charity are scantily spent on the purposes for which they are raised.^[5]^[10]^[11] In 2010 Hanvold accused Norwegian fundamentalist 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 kr from God annually.^[12] Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian Christian organizations, according to official tax figures.^[13]

Views

Hanvold announced that he was praying for the failure of the Norwegian coalition government in 2005.^[14]

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."^[15]

References

^ NRK: Undersøker pengerot (downloaded September 28, 2008)
^ Vårt land: Få stiller spørsmål^{[permanent dead link]} (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: Tilsyn truer med å kaste Hanvold^{[permanent dead link]} (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: Spør om Visjons eiendomskjøp^{[permanent dead link]} (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ ^a ^b Hegnar Online: Predikant Jan Hanvold er på farten igjen som pengeinnsampler Archived 2011-02-17 at the Wayback Machine (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: Samlet inn 175 millioner på ni år^{[permanent dead link]} (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ E24: Betal penger, bli velsignet (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: Ber om millioner, lover velsignelse^{[permanent dead link]}(downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ NRK: Pengepredikanten (downloaded 25 October 2016)
^ Bygdeposten: Kjøper eiendom for nødhjelpspenger (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: Ber Hanvold dokumentere mer^{[permanent dead link]} (downloaded 28 September 2008)
^ Vårt land: - Kristenfolket underslår 8 milliarder i året Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today (downloaded 10 July 2012)
^ Dagen: Hanvold tjener best i Kristen-Norge Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine (lesedato 23. oktober 2011)
^ Praying for Cabinet crisis, Aftenposten, December 2, 2005.
^ Norwegian Princess Märtha's new Course Offereing: Communicating with Angels 101, cgh, Spiegel online, August 14, 2007.