Posted on 05/13/2024 7:57:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Mayor Eric Adams called out sick on the third day of his weekend visit to Rome – cancelling a tour of an Italian school teaching migrants the local language to help them assimilate to society.
Adams, who left for the Eternal City on Thursday and is due back in the Big Apple on Monday, seemed the image of health earlier in his trip, but fell ill and was coughing before his visit to the school Sunday and decided to cancel.
Hizzoner was due to tour the Sant’Egidio Community, which is housed in a 1700s building in Rome’s Piazza di Santa Maria and teaches over 3,500 people Italian on a weekly basis as part of a multi-year course to teach migrants the language – vital work as fluency is a requirement to be a legal resident in Italy.
“He was not able to see that it is possible to build a multi-cultural society,” a spokesperson for the group said. “We would love to help in this also by putting him in contact with our people in New York.
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That’s a shame.
I hope he enjoys his sight-seeing. Great opportunity.
“...vital work as fluency is a requirement to be a legal resident in Italy.”
What a waste of good money that could have been given to newcomers.
I believe the Sant’Egidio Community is a reform Christian organization.
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