The laying on of hands is a religious practice. In Judaism semikhah accompanies the conferring of a blessing or authority.
Catholic ordination ceremony with laying on of hands
Laying on of hands during a Finnish Lutheran ordination in Oulu, Finland
Laying on of hands during a Catholic priestly ordination in Germany
Laying on of hands for healing in Living Streams International Church, Accra, Ghana, 2018
Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. Believers assert that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through prayer or other rituals that, according to adherents, can stimulate a divine presence and power. Religious belief in divine intervention does not depend on empirical evidence of an evidence-based outcome achieved via faith healing. Virtually all scientists and philosophers dismiss faith healing as pseudoscience.
The prophet Elijah praying for the recovery of the son of the widow of Zarephath, from the Bible's Books of Kings
Faith healing by Fernando Suarez, Philippines
Laying on of hands for healing in Living Streams International Church, Accra, Ghana, 2018