A controversial court ruling in Cologne that effectively prohibits most circumcisions in that city has touched a nerve worldwide, and sparked an outcry in Germany that has united Jews and Muslims in a ...

BERLIN -- The German cabinet approved a bill on Wednesday to make circumcision legal, a major step toward ending a controversy that started when a Cologne court banned the practice. Foreign Minister ...

Circumcisions have been virtually suspended in Germany for the past four months. The practice was effectively banned after a regional court in Cologne ruled that circumcision amounts to assault. That ...

A regional German court's ban on circumcision has been met with agreement by Jewish and Muslim organizations united in denouncing it. Religious differences aside, both faiths are eye to eye when it ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to bodily harm even if parents consent to the procedure. Cologne state court said the child’s right to ...

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 ...

The German Parliament passed a law protecting the right of Jewish and Muslim parents to choose a ritual circumcision for their sons, after months of heated debate over efforts to ban the practice. In ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A widely criticized German court verdict on religious circumcision this week aims only to delay the act, not ban it, and is not directed against any faith, a jurist with a leading ...

European Jewish and Muslim groups have joined forces to defend circumcision for young boys on religious grounds after a German regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. A joint statement says ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In a Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo an Israeli woman prays with her son in a reformist Jewish synagogue, in Mevasseret Zion near ...