Maduro was raised as a Roman Catholic, although in 2012 it was reported that he was a follower of Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba and previously visited the guru in India in 2005. Racially, Maduro has indicated that he identifies as mestizo ("mixed "), stating that he includes as a part of his "mestizaje" ("racial mixture") admixture from the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Africans. He stated in a 2013 interview that "my grandparents were Jewish, from a Sephardic Moorish background, and converted to Catholicism in Venezuela".