Brazil
Helplines and statutory routes for Brazil, which has the catalogue's largest Latin American group coverage — from neo-Pentecostal prosperity churches to spiritist and syncretic movements.
Brazil's federal human-rights hotline (Disque 100) is the established public route for reports involving children, the elderly, and abuses inside institutions, and its women's line (Ligue 180) handles domestic and gender-based violence; both are free and run by the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. The CVV volunteer network is the country's long-standing emotional-support line.
Brazil has no dedicated state cult-monitoring body; concerns about religious organisations route through the Ministério Público (public prosecutors), consumer-protection bodies for financial harm, and the child-protection councils (Conselhos Tutelares) at municipal level.
If you are in immediate danger
- Polícia Militar· 24/7190Police emergency. Ambulance (SAMU): 192. Fire: 193.
What situation are you in?
If you are worried about someone in a high-control group
Sustain low-pressure contact. Learn the specific group. Avoid confrontation. Position yourself as a soft landing. The /guides/what-to-do-if-loved-one-joined-a-cult guide covers the long version. Loved-one guide →
If you are inside a high-control group
Talk to a single trusted person outside the group. Open a group-invisible communication channel. Begin mapping financial, housing, and employment dependencies. The leaving guide has the longer version. Leaving guide →
If you recently left
Give yourself a long enough horizon for recovery. Religious-trauma-aware therapy materially helps. Build ordinary relationships outside the tradition. Rebuild-identity guide →
If children are involved
Children's situations are not adult-exit-planning. Statutory child-safeguarding helplines and family-law specialists are the appropriate route. Children guide →
If money, documents, or housing are controlled
Document control overlaps with trafficking and domestic-abuse frameworks. The specialist helplines listed on this page are the right first call. Document-control guide →
Domestic abuse and coercive control
- Ligue 180 — Central de Atendimento à Mulher· 24/7180 WebsiteFree federal line for violence against women — reports, guidance, and referral to local services. 24/7.
Child safeguarding
- Disque 100 — Disque Direitos Humanos· 24/7100 WebsiteFederal human-rights hotline (Ouvidoria Nacional de Direitos Humanos): reports of abuse of children, adolescents, the elderly, and people inside institutions. 24/7, free, anonymous.
Mental-health crisis
- CVV — Centro de Valorização da Vida· 24/7188 WebsiteFree, confidential emotional-support and suicide-prevention line staffed by trained volunteers; also chat and email. 24/7.
Cult-recovery networks
- ICSA (international)No dedicated Brazilian cult-recovery organisation is established in the public record; ICSA's directory and helpline are the international fallback, with Portuguese-speaking referrals on request.
Legal and safeguarding routes
- Ministério Público (state prosecutors)Public prosecutors receive complaints about organisations harming children, consumers, or the public interest; each state has its own Ministério Público with online complaint routes.
Printable quick-reference checklist
- If immediate danger: 190 (police) or 192 (SAMU ambulance).
- Children, elderly, or institutional abuse: Disque 100.
- Violence against women: Ligue 180.
- Emotional crisis: CVV 188 (24/7).
- Organisational harm: report to the state Ministério Público.
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