A row of boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of "circumcision season" in the Philippines, when thousands of youngsters suffer through the procedure en ...

For more than a year, Caspien Gruta has been teased because his circumcision -- a rite of passage for boys in the Philippines -- was delayed, first by a volcanic eruption and then the co... Already a ...

AT first, it seemed like a story of little consequence — a footnote in the daily grind of urban tragedy. A 10-year-old boy died after a botched circumcision in an unlicensed clinic in Tondo, Manila.

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The Philippines has one of the highest rates of circumcision in the world, with many seeing the practice as key to entering manhood - Copyright AFP Maria Tan The ...

For more than a year, Caspien Gruta has been teased because his circumcision — a rite of passage for boys in the Philippines — was delayed, first by a volcanic eruption and then the coronavirus ...