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 ...

Darlene Summerford, was bitten twice after her husband, Glenn, forced her to stick her hand inside a cage of snakes.

where Hamblin is pastor. Hamblin and his church say the Bible commands them to handle the snakes in worship. They’ve been featured in a National Geographic television series, “Snake Salvation.” ...

The last snake-handling church in the US features a preacher wielding a poisonous reptile while a makeshift band of old women blast out rock music. Hidden away in the Appalachian Mountains in West ...

No real snakes or snake handlers were harmed in the ... This is not the ‘separation of church and state’ America most of us grew up with. It’s the flip side of the Taliban’s religious ...

The origins of snake handling in the churches of the southern states, where it was most prevalent, are something of a mystery. Most historians support George W. Hensley’s claim that it started ...

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 ...