JEUNESSE AGRICOLE CHRÉTIENNE (J.A.C.). - Founded in 1929, it is the organization that gathers in French-speaking countries rural young people of any status and condition and concerns itself with all their problems. It has a twofold purpose: to educate and train rural young people in every respect (social, spiritual, familial, physical, professional and civic); to enhance the value of the rural environment, giving rural people themselves an awareness of their worth within the framework of national life.

Its organization is structured into local sections, which are coordinated by federations and by a national committee, governed by a council and a national secretary. Each body has its own headquarters.

The activities that the J. A. C. carries out for young people are called "services" and are intended to respond to all the needs and all the problems of rural youth; thus there is the service for soldiers, the press service, the professional service, the family education service, etc.

Currently the organization publishes a bimonthly newspaper entitled Jeunes forces rurales et militantes, a monthly for apostolically active members.

The badge is a small shield with the inscription J. A. C. and a Cross around which an ear of wheat is entwined.

Parallel and analogous to this movement there exists one of a feminine character.

Bibliography

BIBL.: V. JEUNESSE OUVRIÈRE CHRÉTIENNE.

Ernesto Talentino

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