{"id":238698,"date":"2019-03-25T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238698"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:52:19","slug":"italy-home-circumcision-kills-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/italy-home-circumcision-kills-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy home circumcision kills child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Circumcision is genital mutilation and should be forbidden worldwide.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A five-month-old boy has died after parents performed a circumcision at their home in Italy, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was sent to a Bologna hospital in cardiac arrest on Friday night, but died shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the northern Reggio Emilia province have opened an investigation against the parents, who are reported to be of Ghanaian origin.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar case, a two-year-old boy died after a failed circumcision at a migrant centre in Rome in December.<\/p>\n<p>Some 5,000 circumcisions are performed in Italy each year but more than a third are carried out illegally, according to health charity Amsi.<\/p>\n<p>Circumcision is not carried out at public health institutions in the Roman Catholic country.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the country&#8217;s immigrants come from Muslim countries where circumcision is commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-47687131?fbclid=IwAR02Q8XqpLWvwGF3SEuEtR_cQU4UZIkI1zZyrQXzbJ4Ql4yODmOsLoYhxRo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-47687131?fbclid=IwAR02Q8XqpLWvwGF3SEuEtR_cQU4UZIkI1zZyrQXzbJ4Ql4yODmOsLoYhxRo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Circumcision is genital mutilation and should be forbidden worldwide. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}