In 1576, Pope Gregory XIII established the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau.
Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Catholic Christianity was repressed and adherents were persecuted and killed.
The Patriarchate of Alexandria was founded by Mark the Evangelist around AD 33.
Allied Christian forces had captured Buda back from the Ottoman Empire in 1686 during the Great Turkish War.
Evangelised natives by the Jesuits assisted the Portuguese in driving out the French from France Antarctique in 1567.
Huguenots retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV.
Arabs and Persians were settling along the Konkan-Gujarat coast as early as the 9th, 8th and perhaps 7th century spreading the Islam faith.
The Lykaia festival occurred yearly on the slopes of Mount Lykaion, Arcadia. This primitive rite of passage centered upon an ancient threat of cannibalism.
During the 20th century, Stonehenge began to revive as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopaganism and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids.
The dome built above the tomb of the Islamic prophet Muhammad was first painted green in 1837, and hence became known as the Green Dome.
In 1926 a British anthropologist, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown noted many Aboriginal groups all appeared to share variations of a single (common) myth telling of a powerful serpent.
The Juche ideology does encourage the Confucian virtues of loyalty, reverence, and obedience.
Adam of Bremen's 11th-century Latin history describes a great temple at Uppsala at which human sacrifices regularly took place, and containing the statue of Thor.
The Kingdom of Aksum was one of the first nations to officially accept Christianity, when St. Frumentius of Tyre converted King Ezana during the 4th century AD.
During the siege of Jasna Góra in 1655 Black Madonna of Częstochowa is said to have miraculously saved the monastery.
The isolated location of Nganasan people enabled that shamanism was a living phenomenon among them even in the beginning of the 20th century. The last notable Nganasan shaman's seances could be recorded on film in the 1970s.
After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, Emperor Nero accused the Christians as convenient scapegoats.
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district.
King Jayavarman II (802-869), the first real Khmer king of the Angkor Empire, proclaimed himself Hindu god-king and identified himself with Shiva.
The first ships carrying indentured labourers from India arrived to the island in 1836 to work on the sugarcane plantations. Resulting Hinduism has largest number of adherent today there.
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