On Wednesday afternoon, Pastor Charley Varghese sat down for lunch at his home in Karuvatta, near Haripad, Alappuzha, when his phone began buzzing. He picked up the call and patiently guided the tense ...

A serpent-wielding pastor who championed the reptiles on reality television died following a rattlesnake bite - after declining medical help. Jamie Coots, hailing from Kentucky in the US, featured in ...

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. Coots was handling a ...

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.

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