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“This world,” Pastor Bruce Helton, who heads another snake-handling church in nearby Harlan County, explains to me one afternoon, “is wicked.” If it weren’t, the thinking goes, fewer ...
Snake handling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually characterized as rural and part of the Holiness movement.
Watch CBS News. A snake handler and church leader in Kentucky died after being bit during a religious ceremony. CBS News' Marlie Hall reports on the pastor and how he met his death.
19 cze 2014 · One look at the rigid, swollen, right hand of Faye Nolan, the 12-year-old handler who was bitten by a rattler at a Cawood, Ky., meeting September 28, will convince even the most skeptical that...
18 cze 2014 · Members of the River Street Church in Harlan, Ky. demonstrate their control over venomous snakes during a service. Snake handlers draw their inspiration from bible passages in John,...
4 lut 2021 · In a report from National Geographic published Monday, Hamblin, 29, who now pastors the Free Pentecostal House of Prayer in Gray, Kentucky, with his new wife, Taylor, shows that the group of Pentecostal snake handlers are increasingly calling on doctors for help when they get bitten while handling venomous snakes instead of simply praying that ...
20 sie 2018 · Updated August 21, 2018 10:28 AM. Like his pastor father who died four years ago, Cody Coots brandished a snake during a Kentucky church service he led and was bitten, this time while video...
