Brazilian Spiritist Federation

[3][4] In various countries, the federation provides extensive support to mediums, speakers, and other Spiritist organizations, publishes and translates books on the subject, and promotes charitable actions.

According to data from 2006, the FEB provided philanthropic social assistance to approximately a thousand families and maintained a daycare center for 800 children in Santo Antônio do Descoberto, Goiás.

The roots of the national federative organization date back to the publication, in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the Empire, on January 21, 1883, of the periodical "Reformador", initiated and financed by Augusto Elias da Silva, a Portuguese photographer who settled in Brazil, with intellectual direction by Major Francisco Raimundo Ewerton Quadros.

On the following day (January 2), its first board of directors was elected and inaugurated, consisting of Major Ewerton Quadros as president, Fernandes Filgueiras as vice-president, Silveira Pinto as secretary, Elias da Silva as treasurer, and Xavier Pinheiro as archivist.

[5] However, in its early years, the FEB also faced various difficulties, both administrative and financial, as well as ideological issues internally, and the political and social upheavals of the country's capital externally.

After Leal resigned after seven months in office, Bezerra accepted reappointment and resumed the Presidency of the Federation on August 3, 1895, a position he held until his death in 1900.

[6] In 1932, the FEB published its first major editorial success: "Parnaso de Além-Túmulo" (Parnassus from Beyond the Tomb), which gained great attention from the press and the Brazilian public.

[7] The period was also marked by the lawsuit initiated in 1944 by the widow of writer Humberto de Campos against the FEB and Francisco Cândido Xavier, seeking the alleged copyright over the psychographed messages attributed to her deceased husband.

As a result of this effort, the "Caravan of Fraternity" was sent to the Northeast Region of Brazil, composed of, among others, Artur Lins de Vasconcelos Lopes, Carlos Jordão da Silva, and Leopoldo Machado.

[7] Finally, in 1960, in the context of the transfer of the capital of the country from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, the then President of the Republic, Juscelino Kubitschek, declared the FEB a Public Utility Entity.