A Vatican-accredited correspondent was physically assaulted during a press encounter in Rome by a member of the Venezuelan entourage to the Holy See.
According to a source close to the incident who spoke with The Catholic Herald, the journalist in question, Edgar Beltrán, Vatican correspondent for The Pillar, was attacked by a member of the Venezuelan delegation to the Holy See identified as Ricardo Cisneros, after he attempted to ask questions about Venezuelan political developments.
The incident occurred at an event hosted by Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, at Rome’s Lateran University, in connection with the canonisation of Saints José Gregorio Hernández and María del Carmen Rendiles.
