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* The Federal Republic of Germany has been the site of a controversy over the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The [[Cologne circumcision court judgment]] was a ruling in 2012 that non-therapeutic circumcision of a boy violated the [[human rights]] of the boy guaranteed by Germany's Basic Law. Thereafter a heated [[Circumcision Debate]] commenced.
The Catholic Church (''Katholische Kirche'') in Germany has taken a position in favor of Jewish and Muslims having a right to circumcise as an exercise of a religious right.{{Citation |Title= |Text="Legal certainty established. The sometimes very emotional and polemical debate about the religiously motivated circumcision of boys has caused considerable irritation in the Jewish and Muslim communities." The irritation of the child during circumcision is irrelevant to the Catholic Church. |Author=Bishop Mussinghoff |Source= |ref=<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.zwangsbeschneidung.de/evangelische-und-katholische-kirche.html |title=Die Kirchen zur Beschneidung |last= |first= |date= |accessdate=2022-08-16}}</ref>}}
The Catholic Church in Germany operates 353 hospitals in Germany. None have a policy against non-therapeutic circumcision.