Voodoo supreme chief Max Beauvoir of Haiti dies at 79

The Voodoo supreme chief Max Beauvoir has died in his homeland of Haiti, where the mixture of beliefs from west Africa and Catholicism is recognized as an official religion. He was 79.
A government statement said Beauvoir died on Saturday in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince after an illness. The cause of death was not immediately known.
On his Twitter account, President Michel Martelly described Beauvoir’s death as a “great loss for the country”.
Born in 1936, Beauvoir was a biochemical engineer who earned degrees abroad and became a Voodoo priest when he returned to his Caribbean homeland in the 1970s.

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