René Breuel, CNE.news

Job Title: Commentator at CNE

René Breuel was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1983 and has lived in Rome, Italy since 2010. He holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from Oxford University in the UK, a Master of Divinity from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, a bachelor’s in business administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has studied at Universität Mannheim in Germany. Breuel is the author of "The Paradox of Happiness". He has also contributed chapters for "Movements of the Gospel" and "Common: Fifty Reflections on Everyday Life". His most recent projects include "Fathers Don’t Come Ready", a memoir about fatherhood, and "Basta Mammoni", a screenplay of family comedy for the Italian cinema. In 2012 he founded Hopera, a church in Rome. His sermons reach an Italian online audience through YouTube and the platform Hopera.tv. Breuel has written for the Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He contributes regularly to faith-based periodicals such as Christianity Today (in USA), Ultimato (in Brazil), Evangelical Focus (a European news website), and Protestante Digital (its equivalent for Spanish-speaking countries). Married to Sarah in 2006, he is the proud father of two children, Pietro and Matteo.