On Thursday, May 16, 2013 members of the Lido Civic Club of Washington, DC raised $1,370 during their regular monthly meeting towards the purchase of dozens of new missals containing the new Mass translation for delivery to the sole Catholic chapel, in fact the only public Christian church, located in all of Afghanistan.

Located in the Italian Embassy compound, the chapel has a long and storied history. As a way of thanking the Italian government for being the first country to recognize Afghanistan's independence in 1919, a clause giving Italy the right to build a chapel within its embassy was included in the Italian-Afghan treaty of 1921.

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