New York City Mayor Eric Adams Meets Pope Francis at Vatican: Highlights of Historic Visit

New York City Mayor Eric Adams had an audience with Pope Francis this morning at the Vatican, the highlight of his three-day visit to Rome.

The 63-year-old mayor and the 87-year-old Pope were pictured smiling and shaking hands in exclusive photos obtained by New York Post. Although Adams clarified that “Action is not Catholic,” He said that the trip to the world center of Catholicism was “a very important moment… for “spiritual action”.

Adams visited Vatican City with Nobel Prize Winners and other partners in the “World Meeting on Human Brotherhood”, including Graça Machel Mandela, there widow of Nelson Mandela.

“I travel to Rome because the solutions to the problems facing our city, our country and our planet must be solved together. We will talk about infrastructure, climate change, the refugee crisis sanctuary and much more. Through hard work and faith “We can achieve nothing.”

Eric Adams
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Mayor of New York

On Friday night, Adams toured the Sistine Chapel followed by dinner at the Vatican. “I think what (the Pope) is doing is essential, with a second meeting on human brotherhood, it is very important, because, as young people would say, he is a reliable messenger, he is an influential person ,” said the mayor. Francis. of the Democratic Party on the eve of their meeting.

After his papal audience this Saturday, Adams he met the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, in Piazza di San Cosimato, where they painted over graffiti and toured a restored garden used by a local non-profit youth group.

“Young people are very far from nature. But these children are motivated. “They name themselves after plants,” Adams marveled at the project. “I would like to say that New York City is the Rome of the United States,” then he boasted.

The local media reviewed his statements on Friday, in which I would recommend the speed of the public transport construction projects of the so-called ‘Eternal City’, as the Italian capital is known. “When it comes to doing these big upgrades, they can build here without all the bureaucracy,” he laughed.

Air Adams He posted a video of himself arriving in Italy on Twitterrecommending the The Knicks and writes this message: “I travel to Rome because the solutions to the problems facing our city, our country and our planet must be solved together, sharing ideas and -techniques. We will talk about infrastructure, climate change, the asylum seeker crisis and much more. Through hard work and faith, there is nothing we cannot achieve. “

Later Saturday, Adams, a former NYPD cop who took over as mayor in January 2022, would be the keynote speaker at a roundtable on public administration in urban communities at the Palazzo Senatorio.

The migration crisis have identified Adams’ rule, among which a national political battle between democrats and republicans. In September The mayor said the large influx of immigrants will “destroy” the cityclaiming lack of resources from Joe Biden’s government.

That is thought to be between April 2022 and December 2023 164,500 people They passed through the entrance of the town, looking $10.6 billion the new total cost of the migration crisis until the end of fiscal year 2025. Since then the number of asylum seekers has increased.

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