Les Balsiger

Les Balsiger (1949 – 2018) was an American religious activist. In the 1990s, Reverend Balsiger, a former car salesman, led a short publicity campaign in the western United States criticizing the Pope as the Antichrist, through his Printed Page Ministries based in Troy, Montana.

Balsinger belonged originally to a Seventh-day Adventist congregation that was thrown out of the denomination by the church's national leadership in a dispute related to the firing of the congregation's pastor.

Balsiger died in 2018.

Billboard campaign In 1993, Roman Catholic Archbishop Michael Sheehan complained about billboards around Albuquerque, New Mexico that showed a caricature of the Pope with the words "a man of sin." The bishop characterized the billboards, put up by Balsiger's Printed Page Ministries, as "anti-Catholic". Balsiger was also the publisher of a newspaper, The Protestant, and he opened a training school in Hungary to build up his work in Eastern Europe.