(Maskot/Getty Images) Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses from religious switching of any faith group around the world, according to our 2024 surveys . Religious switching refers to when people identify with a different religion in adulthood than they were raised in as a child. Within Christianity, however, religious switching has affected the two largest subgroups – Catholicism and Protestantism – differently: Catholicism has lost more people than it’s gained in nearly all countries that we surveyed. Protestantism has seen a net gain from switching in nearly as many places as it has seen a net loss. Here we take a closer look at religious switching into, out of, and between Catholicism and Protestantism, based on Pew Research Center surveys in 24 countries. What is ‘religious switching’? Religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in adulthood).…