Category: Renato Brun Del Re

Canadian Television program W-FIVE investigates the Dominion Christian Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

A well-respected Ontario couple — a family doctor and his teacher wife — are at the centre of bizarre kidnapping allegations in a case that could spark debate about whether parents are justified in breaking the law if they believe their child is in peril. Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, his wife, Lucie, their son and several friends will appear in court in Hamilton today on kidnapping charges for their desperate efforts to remove their daughter, who is now 23, from what they believe is a cult operating in downtown Hamilton.

A Hamilton evangelical Christian group at the heart of a kidnapping case denies it is a religious cult. Hamilton police have charged members of a Milton family with abduction after an alleged attempt to deprogram a family member who joined the Dominion Christian Centre on Park St. N. three years ago.

A Mississauga doctor and his son are facing charges of kidnapping and forcible confinement after an alleged attempt to deprogram a woman who joined an evangelical Christian group in Hamilton. Meanwhile, members of the Christian group denies allegations of being a religious cult. Hamilton police laid the charges in connection with the alleged abduction of a woman who joined the Dominion Christian Centre (DCC) three years ago. Police say the woman was snatched near the church just before Christmas and held 10 days before she was able to escape. Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, a family physician in Mississauga,