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 (downloaded 28 September 2008)
- ↑ Vårt land: Tilsyn truer med å kaste Hanvold (downloaded 28 September 2008)
- ↑ Vårt land: Spør om Visjons eiendomskjøp (downloaded 28 September 2008)
- 1 2 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 (downloaded 28 September 2008)
- ↑ E24: Betal penger, bli velsignet (downloaded 28 September 2008)
- ↑ Vårt land: Ber om millioner, lover velsignelse(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 (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.