WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, 42, was a pastor in Kentucky and starred in National Geographic's "Snake Salvation" ...

Relying on a passage in the Bible that says “ they shall take up serpents,’ ’ ministers said they were using the snakes to show their faith in God. Many of the snake-handling churches were in ...

Pastor Jamie Coots says his Pentecostal church is really not that different from other churches. "We sing, we preach, we testify, take up... Snake-Handling Preachers Open Up About 'Takin' Up Serpents' ...

A pastor bitten by a snake while handling a serpent in a demonstration of faith is revaluating his life and belief after a close brush with death. Cody Coots, a pastor at Full Gospel Tabernacle in ...

Snake handling, a religious rite involving poisoning snakes practiced in a small number of Christian communities in the U.S., is at the heart of the new true crime documentary “Alabama Snake.” The HBO ...

In southern West Virginia Pastor Mack Wolford leads one of the few remaining snake handling churches in the United States His family is deeply tied to the faith Mack was a child when he lost his ...

A new documentary by a London media company shows a serpent-handling pastor being bit and injured by a venomous snake at a Kentucky church. University of Tennessee-Chattanooga professor Ralph Hood, ...

On a warm summer evening several years ago, congregants jammed the front of the Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tennessee. It was homecoming time, and scores of Pentecostals, hailing from ...