33.2% of 6.7 billion world population (under the section 'People') "World". CIA world facts. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
Tacitus tells about this in his Annales: Perseus-Project: Annales 15,44Archived 2008-01-27 at the Wayback Machine In the passage, Tacitus talks about the burning of Rome, which Nero attributed to the Christians: Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular.
Tacitus tells about this in his Annales: Perseus-Project: Annales 15,44Archived 2008-01-27 at the Wayback Machine In the passage, Tacitus talks about the burning of Rome, which Nero attributed to the Christians: Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular.
33.2% of 6.7 billion world population (under the section 'People') "World". CIA world facts. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2012-01-24.