New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony known in Hebrew as ...

Two infants have died in the last decade among ultra-Orthodox Jews in NYC. March 12, 2012— -- New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who contracted herpes after a ...

An ancient circumcision ritual is at the center of a present-day legal battle in New York. The New York City Department of Health wants to require parental consent for a controversial circumcision ...

A county in Sweden is planning to ban non-medical circumcision of boys, its commissioner said. Per-Ola Mattsson, commissioner of Blekinge County, said he would move ahead with plans to ban ritual ...

The Scottish Government is facing calls to end funding for the circumcision of boys for religious reasons. The National Secular Society has claimed that there is no justification for the NHS to spend ...

Lamkelo Mtyho, 22, had no known health issues when he joined his peers, wrapped in blankets and smeared in clay, for the most important ritual of his young life: the highly secretive process of ...

A new proposal by liberal and left-leaning legislators in Germany would bar ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 14. Some 50 members of Parliament – from the Social Democratic Party, the Left ...

“This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.” — Genesis 17:10 A district judge in Cologne, Germany, ...