Church of World Messianity - in Brazil

In Brazil

Brazil has the largest concentration of Japanese and people of Japanese descent outside of Japan. According to Hideaki Matsuoka, University of California, Berkeley, in a presentation at the Summer 2000 Asian Studies Conference Japan entitled "Messianity Makes the Person Useful: Describing Differences in a Japanese Religion in Brazil," new Japanese religions have propagated in Brazil since the 1930s and they now have at least a million non-Japanese Brazilian followers. Three major religions ranked by the number of followers are, Seicho-No-Ie, Messianity, Mahikari and PL Kyodan.

In Brazil Guarapiranga is the sacred place of the Church of World Messianity (or Igreja Messiânica Mundial).