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After several years of cooperation between French, Belgian and Dutch youth movements, a plan for an international association appeared for the first time in Luzerne, Switzerland in 1959: Association Jeunesses Paroissiales Générales (General Parish Youth Association).
In 1960, on the sidelines of the Munich Eucharistic Congress, a first conference of the Communautés Générales de la Jeunesse Paroissiale (General Communities of Parochial Youth) took place, bringing together delegates from many different organisations and movements.
It was also in Munich in October 1961 that 11 organisations and movements from the four continents met to found the Fédération Internationale des Mouvements Catholiques d’Action Paroissiale – FIMCAP (International Federation of Catholic Parochial Youth Movements).
The birth of FIMCAP was announced during Easter celebrations, at a large pilgrimage that brought together over 1 000 participants in Rome in April 1962.
It was in 1976, after frequent contacts between FIMCAP and the Holy See between 1963 and 1975 that FIMCAP was officially recognised as an International Catholic Organisation by the Holy See.
It is in this capacity that FIMCAP is a member of the Conference of the International Catholic Organizations.
FIMCAP will continue its work with the youth ICOs and within the Conference of ICOs as well as with other international organisations of the faithful.