Jan Kåre Hanvold (born 29 April 1951) is a

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pastor. Hanvold is the owner of television station

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that is carried throughout

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and much of Europe. Hanvold announced that he was praying for the failure of the Norwegian coalition government in 2005. Hanvold has criticized the Norwegian

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'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."''Norwegian Princess Märtha's new Course Offereing: Communicating with Angels 101''
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online, August 14, 2007. Hanvold has a dubious reputation as a businessman, and his resume includes a series of bankruptcies and a jail sentence.''Hegnar Online: Predikant Jan Hanvold er på farten igjen som pengeinnsampler''
(downloaded 28 September 2008) He has been criticized for raising obscene amounts of money through his religious media projects, in 2016 the Norwegian state broadcaster

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estimated that his media projects had raised more than one billion

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r in 15 years. Scrutiny of these projects has discovered that the funds he raises for charity are scantily spent on the purposes for which they are raised. In 2010 Hanvold accused Norwegian fundamentalist Christians of

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, claiming that by donating less than one tenth of their income as

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to Christian organizations this group is stealing 8 billion

r from God annually. Hanvold, in 2010, made more money than anybody else employed by Norwegian Christian organizations, according to official tax figures.Dagen: Hanvold tjener best i Kristen-Norge
(lesedato 23. oktober 2011)

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