Merkel says she favors religion in Germany, doesn’t want to punish circumcision if it is carried out in a responsible manner.
By REUTERS
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman promised Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities on Friday they would be free to carry out circumcision on young boys despite a court ban which has provoked concerns about religous freedom.
An infant Jewish boy at his ‘secular-friendly’ circumcision.
– Photo by Phillip Pasmanick
In a country that is especially sensitive to allegations of intolerance because of the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the government said it would find a way around the Cologne court ban in June as a matter of urgency. Continue Reading »
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