 Currently, the organization is one of the largest Protestant denominations worldwide.The "Assembleias de Deus" began when Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren, two Swedish Pentecostal missionaries departed to Brazil.They arrived in Belém, Pará, where in 1911 founded the "Missão de Fé Apostólica," which later changed its name in 1918 to "Assembleia de Deus".