If you’d told me before I traveled to the serpent-handling church in West Virginia that it wouldn’t be the snakes that made the biggest impression, I’d have said you were nuts. But it’s true. After ...

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 ...

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

Andrew Hamblin handles poisonous snakes every Sunday in the name of Jesus. At just 22, he leads Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., a Pentecostal church that practices a rare, century-old ...