“Our study led to a major increase in uptake of male circumcision. It also lays groundwork for further research to establish the effect of promoting healthy behaviours through religious communities in ...

One top rabbi said a court ruling making the practice illegal meant there was "no future for Jews in Germany." In Germany, the past few weeks have been marked by an intense debate over religious ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Jewish and Muslim groups protested on Wednesday after a German court banned the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons in the first ruling of its kind in the country. The ...

A proposed bill to ban non-medically required male circumcision on babies and children in Iceland is receiving backlash from religious communities. "Those procedures are unnecessary, done without ...

In a decision it's difficult for any reasonable person to object to, a German court banned circumcision this week. Not circumcision per se, mind you. Just circumcision of children too young to make ...

The practice of metzitzah b’peh, a controversial part of some Jewish circumcisions, is reigniting concern about religious circumcision in Germany, where the government only recently fended off an ...

Among the tenets most central to the practice of Judaism are kosher religious slaughter (shechita) and circumcision (brit milah). Both are based on our history throughout the millennia and have been ...

The Guardian reports that the country could be the first European country to outlaw the circumcision of boys for non-medical reasons. If passed, anyone found guilty will face six years imprisonment.

A bill unanimously approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would extend religious protections to advocates of circumcision and ritual slaughter as well as atheists, addressing what its sponsors ...