Jan-Aage Torp (born 26 June 1957) is a Norwegian pastor and evangelist. He has developed an extensive international network, and currently hosts the show Hovedstaden med Pastor Torp on the Christian television station Visjon Norge. [1]
Jan-Aage Torp (born 26 June 1957) is a Norwegian pastor and evangelist. He has developed an extensive international network, and currently hosts the show Hovedstaden med Pastor Torp on the Christian television station Visjon Norge. [1]
Torp was born in Kyoto to missionary parents, and spent his formative years in Japan and Thailand, until moving to Norway in 1971. [1] Active in the Pentecostal community, he eventually became a prolific interpreter for numerous international evangelists including Billy Graham. [1] After having been a pastor in established Pentecostal congregations for some years, he founded Seierskirken in Lillestrøm in 1990. [1] He then became outspoken in his opposition against the homosexual partnership law and against abortion, working together with Finn Jarle Sæle, Børre Knudsen and Ludvig Nessa. [1]
From 2016, he became active in work against the Norwegian Child Welfare Services together with Polish organisation Ordo Iuris, which led him to gain an extensive network among international ambassadors. [1] He has also gained contacts and had personal audience with the world's leading Muslim leaders, including Ahmed el-Tayeb, Shawki Allam and Mohamed Gomaa. [1]
Torp's son Anders has spoken out publicly and written a book Jesussoldaten about his "extreme" upbringing, which included preparing for the end times, twenty-seven exorcisms and fasting for 40 days. [2] His daughter Christine has also spoken out about a childhood of being terrified of God, sin and hell, and of having been prepared of being persecuted, tortured and killed because they were Christians in the end times. [3] Two more of his six children have supported the criticism. [4]
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