in Rio de Janeiro, 539;

The brothers from the larger cities have also been doing their share in working distant and seldom-worked territory. For nine consecutive years, those in Rio de Janeiro have organized groups to work in such territory for a few weeks. Recently a group of 68 brothers and sisters worked in 20 cities in Paraná, traveling more than 1,600 miles [2,500 km] during the 17-day effort. Their only regret, says Georges Ghazi, one of the organizers of the group, is that these witnessing excursions were not begun earlier.

Early meetings held in Brazil by Jehovah’s Witnesses (then known as Bible Students) included those in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

After about 25 years, arrangements were made to translate Watch Tower publications into Portuguese on a regular basis in Brazil and to print them in Rio de Janeiro.