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Praying for Cabinet crisis:
Norwegian TV pastor Jan Hanvold urges his Christian viewers to pray for the collapse of Norway's fledgling government.
The preacher from the TV-Visjon Norge channel finds the new left-center "Red-Green Alliance" unacceptable, even though he has no major grudge against two of the three coalition partners. The agrarian Center Party and the dominant Labor Party are not the problem.
"The Labor Party and the Center Party we can swallow, but the Socialist Left stands for a de-Christianizing stance that we just cannot support," Hanvold said on his live program on Thursday evening, the Christian newspaper Magazinet reports.
"Several Christians have asked to pray for the government, but I pray for a Cabinet crisis," Hanvold said. The recent Socialist Left party call to boycott Israel was the final straw.
"We cannot pray and bless such a government, so I urge all Christians sitting and watching to pray for a government crisis," Hanvold said.
(Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB)