Christianity represents about a third of the world's population and is the world's largest religion.

The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.

With more than a billion adherents, Hinduism is the world's third largest religion.

It became common to all of Europe in the Middle Ages and expanded throughout the world during Europe's Age of Exploration from the Renaissance onwards to become the world's largest religion.

* University of Wisconsin – Madison has one of the largest programs in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, with particular strength in medical history, history of biology, history of science and religion, and environmental history.

Since that time, ADF has developed into one of the world's largest forms of contemporary Druidism practiced as a religion.

According to the 2001 edition of the National Jewish Population Survey, in the United States ' Jewish community — the world's second largest — 4. 3 million Jews out of 5. 1 million had some sort of connection to the religion.

Neo-Druidism forms the second largest pagan religion after Wicca, and like Wicca in turn shows significant heterogeneity.

Pagan Witchcraft is the largest contemporary pagan religion, having originally developed in the United Kingdom and since spread across the world.

It is also fewer than the adherents Jediism, whose campaign made them the fourth largest religion after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

Dawah means to " invite " ( in Arabic, literally " calling ") to Islam, estimated to be the second largest religion next to Christianity.

In the Hindu religion, Thursday is Guruvaar ( ग ु र ु व ा र ), from Guru, the Sanskrit name for Jupiter, the largest of planets.

In former ages, Protestantism used to be the largest religion in the Netherlands, but there has always been a high percentage of Roman Catholics, who were strongly predominating in the southern provinces, but also considerably present in the northern ones.

The second largest actual religion in Salisbury was Islam with adherents accounting for 0. 24 % of the population.

The largest mass killings in history have been attempts to exterminate entire groups or communities of people, often on the basis of ethnicity or religion.

The third largest was people who said they had no religion at 12. 8 %.

Ammit (; " devourer " or " soul-eater "; also spelled Ammut or Ahemait ) was a female demon in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile — the three largest " man-eating " animals known to ancient Egyptians.

Buddhism is widely reported to be the fourth largest religion in France, after Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

The second largest group have no religion ( 19. 4 %), third largest being Hindu ( 1. 1 %), fourth largest is Muslim ( 0. 7 %) followed by Buddhists ( 0. 3 %) and other religions ( 0. 3 %), followed by Jewish ( 0. 2 %) and Sikh ( 0. 2 %) populations.

Christianity represents the largest major religion of Kingston, with 114, 145 of all residents ( 79. 9 %) claiming affiliation.

The vast majority of Barisan Nasional's seats are held by its three largest religion and race-based political parties — the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ), the Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ), and the Malaysian Indian Congress ( MIC ) — each of which is sectarian in nature, though officially supporting racial harmony for the cameras.

It is the third largest religion with approximately 1. 05 billion followers worldwide, 96 % of whom live in the Indian subcontinent.

The population at the 2001 census was 31, 705 ( ranked 13th largest in Wales ).

The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island, Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island.

This means that clubs of all standards compete, from the largest clubs in England and Wales down to amateur village teams.

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle.

Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales.

The New South Wales Police Force remains the largest police force in Australia in terms of personnel and physical resources.

The American performer and recording artist Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, creating the largest public mourning since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.

* 1271 – The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.

Greyhound Racing New South Wales ( GRNSW ) and Greyhound Racing Victoria ( GRV ) are the two largest authorities, governing over 40 racetracks.

* The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.

The show is now the largest one-day agricultural show in Wales, with over 350 trade stands.

From the 8th century on, Wales was by far the largest of the three remnant Brythonic areas in Britain, the other two being the Hen Ogledd and Cornwall.

Wales was divided into a number of separate kingdoms, the largest of these being Gwynedd in northwest Wales and Powys in east Wales.

This prompted the English conquest of Gwynedd, and subsequent construction of Caernarfon Castle, one of the largest and most imposing fortifications built by the English in order to control Wales.

Its population includes the largest percentage of Welsh-speaking citizens anywhere in Wales.

It would not only have been the largest, but also the first post-Reformation church in England and Wales built according to a plan where the preacher was to take the centre instead of the altar, thus stressing the importance of preaching in the Protestant Church.

In 1952 the completion of the Abbey Works made Port Talbot the home of one of Europe's largest integrated steelworks and ( with 18, 000 employees ) the largest employer in Wales.

Less than two months later, in elections to the European parliament, Labour support slumped further, and Plaid Cymru came within 2. 5 % of achieving the largest share of the vote in Wales.

** Bala Lake, the largest natural lake in Wales

The Gold Coast also holds the title of the largest cross-state population of any metropolitan area in Australia, due to the inclusion of Tweed Heads, New South Wales in its metropolitan area.

In 2007, the Gold Coast overtook the population of Newcastle, New South Wales to become the sixth largest city in Australia and the largest non-capital city.