YCW Football Club
YCW may refer to: * Young Christian Workers, an international Roman Catholic organization *Chilliwack Airport Chilliwack Airport is located adjacent to Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Airport facilities The airport is used by both private pilots and commercial air operators and has services and modification facilities for different types of airc ...

Young Christian Workers
The Young Christian Workers (YCW; french: Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne) is an international organization founded by Rev. Joseph Cardijn in Belgium as the Young Trade Unionists; the organization adopted its present name in 1924. Its French acronym, JOC, gave rise to the then widely used terms ''Jocism'' and ''Jocist''. In 1925, the JOC received Papal approbation, and in 1926 spread to France and eventually to 48 countries. YCW in the past Cardijn blamed the death of his father, a mineworker, on harsh labor conditions. Working-class Belgians of the era tended to see the Church as serving the interests of the aristocracy, and some old friends considered Cardijn a traitor; he thus decided to devote his career to "reconciling his Church with the industrial workers of the world." When Cardijn was first made an assistant priest in the Brussels suburb Royal Laeken in 1912, he began to work with factory workers. In 1915, he became the director of the city's Catholic social work. In the y ...
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