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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Sep 14, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
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  Photo: File picture shows a Voodoo priestess (R) treating a sick woman during a ritual ceremony in Cap-Haitian, north of Port-au-Prince.
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://news.yahoo.com/head-haitis-voodoo-religion-dies-053209617.html

Overview

• Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Max Gesner Beauvoir, the supreme chief of the voodoo religion, died at the age of 79 in the Haitian capital, his relatives announced.
  
  Beauvoir, a biochemist by training, was named in 2008 the "National Ati," or spiritual guide for voodoo practitioners. The title was created to defend Haiti's historic religion from increased attacks from some Protestant churches and Evangelical preachers.
  
  In 2010, influential US televangelist Pat Robertson stirred controversy when he claimed that the earthquake that struck Haiti that year and killed more than 200,000 people had a demonic origin.
  
  Robertson claimed that the quake was caused by "a pact to the devil" that Haitians swore in 1804 when they rose against the French colonizers to obtain independence.
  
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