Snake-handling is a tradition for the Coots family of Kentucky. But months after taking over for his father to lead a Pentecostal church, Cody Coots says he was bitten this week. His father, Jamie, ...

(WBIR) -- Kentucky Pastor Jamie Coots died Saturday night after he was bitten by a snake, according to officials and family members. Coots starred on the reality show "Snake Salvation" alongside ...

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' ...

Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a group of Pentecostals in Appalachia who handle snakes in church to prove their faith in God. The story got us thinking: Why are the handlers bitten so rarely, and why ...

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” died Saturday after being bitten by a snake.

Members of a North Carolina church continued to handle snakes after a 1947 police raid, officials said. Screengrab from the Museum of Durham History on Facebook A snake-handling church was the target ...

A small number of churches in the Appalachian region of the United States practice a controversial ritual known as snake handling. The tradition stems from a literal interpretation of a biblical ...

Authorities say Pastor Brock was bitten on his left arm and refused medical treatment According to the Kentucky sheriff's office, John David Brock of Stoney Fork was handling a snake during a Sunday ...

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 ...

Coots was handling a rattlesnake during a Saturday night service at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bitten, another preacher, Cody Winn, told WBIR-TV. "Jamie ...