JEUNESSE INDÉPENDANTE CHRÉTIENNE (J.I.C.) - Founded in French-speaking countries in 1925, it is directed to all young people belonging to the middle class, the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, to commerce, industry, and the liberal professions, whose task it is to contribute, with all their prerogatives and possibilities for action, to the creation of a harmonious society. It is organized into parish and interparish sections, federal or diocesan bodies, which report to a national committee composed of 15 members.
The J. I. C. seeks to provide its members with religious and moral, social and civic, professional and political formation, through the implementation and study of a general programme of the Movement. To this end it establishes commissions of employees and officials dealing with questions concerning this category, as well as commissions dealing with military personnel, and it has a training school for its leaders. The J. I. C. also undertakes to intervene so that the means of recreation offered by society to young people, social gatherings, etc., may not constitute a serious danger to morality, but may always be Christian.
The organization’s publication is the Bulletin, for leaders. Its emblem is a small shield bearing the inscription J. I. C. and an ear of wheat entwined around a Cross placed at the centre. Parallel to this movement there is a similar women’s movement.