For many women, the decision is less about preserving tradition and more about avoiding stigma, rejection, or social exclusion within their communities ...

Exclusive: Possible revision of guidance for prosecutors in England and Wales comes amid safety concerns from courts Circumcision is to be classed as a potential form of child abuse under new guidance ...

But, despite the strong data, efforts to roll out mass circumcision have met with continued resistance. In July, news agencies reported that elders from the Luo tribe, the third largest ethnic group ...

We all know people who seem to attract all the bad luck in life. Europe, facing both internal and external challenges, is starting to look like that unfortunate person. What the region needs now is ...

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I am willing to walk behind Byanyima in the protest march for Besigye. Not the march for kubanjaring the lost or stolen votes ...

The Torah commanded every Jew to write a Torah scroll for himself. From the time that it was permitted to write the Oral ...

At least 41 young men die following highly-secretive, coming-of-age initiations, in which tens of thousands of teenagers participate Ben Farmer is Africa Correspondent for The Telegraph and its Global ...

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity concludes at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation, near Jaffa Gate – the seat of the Melkite community in Jerusalem and one of the most discreet yet ...

The gospel reading for Epiphany 4 is John 2.1–11, the water into wine at the wedding in Cana (also the reading for Epiphany 3 ...