In the video, Chris Gifford stands shirtless on a residential street with his hat turned backward, gripping a cobra that looks to be 12 feet long. Neighbors’ houses sit in the background while he ...

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

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was convinced serpents wouldn’t harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. His unshakeable faith stemmed from one passage in ...

Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was a snake-handling pastor who believed that the serpents wouldn't hurt him ...

(RNS) — When Andrew Hamblin walks into church to preach on a Sunday morning, he brings along death in a box. If the Holy Spirit moves him during the service, he will open the box’s hinged glass lid ...

A snake-handling pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show "Snake Salvation" has died after being bitten by a snake during a weekend church service in Kentucky.Jamie Coots ...

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 ...

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 snake-handling church was the target of a bizarre police raid 76 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. On Nov. 1, 1947, a venomous copperhead snake was seized from Zion Tabernacle Church in ...

The practice of handling snakes has waned since the early 1900s, but still goes on in pockets of Appalachia, said Ralph Hood, a University of Tennessee-Chattanooga professor who is one of the nation’s ...

From the early days of their movement, Pentecostals have been reluctant to embrace the film industry. In the early 1900s, adherents warned that theaters were hunting grounds for white slavers.