Career
Since 2014 Nessa has preached on Visjon Norge from church services at his Gospel Hall after being awarded a time-slot by January Hanvold. Appointed priest of Borge og Torsnes in Østfold in 1979, Nessa founded the "New Life Action" Aksjon Nytt Liv along with Børre Knudsen in 1987 in order to stage protests against abortion. They staged their first non-violent protest against abortion at a hospital in Oslo, and later protested with symbolic burials of small coffins, and sending dolls drenched in ketchup to public figures and politicians.
In 1999 Nessa went into "church asylum" at a Gospel Hall as he was due to serve time in prison for refusing to pay fines received for his anti-abortion protests.
He was arrested later the same year and sent to serve his penalty of 53 days imprisonment. In 2013 Nessa was notified from tax authorities that he risked being registered as "emigrated from Norway", as since he was evicted from his parish residence in 1991 has been registered as "homeless".
He alternates between residing in a Gospel Hall in Fredrikstad and his cabin in Sarpsborg. He has proposed and stated his willingness to burn the Quran after comedian Otto Jespersen in 2006 burned a Bible, and he has voiced his support for American pastor Terry Jones.
He has suggested that the 2011 Norway attacks may have been caused as a result of Norwegian abortion policies.
As part of an annual marking against abortion on the date of its legalisation in Norway, 13 June, Nessa and his followers have routinely "banished" the Government quarter that was bombed on 22 July.
