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The Beacon International Magazine is a laity publication on the Catholic faith and the African Church.

The Beacon International Magazine has as its primary aim the dissemination of vital Catholic information on doctrine, faith, health and every day life. Ours is one of the first laity efforts in Catholic publication for local and international markets on the African continent covering diverse areas such as faith, the Church, doctrine, everyday life experiences.

The Beacon team is drawn from an enviable group of international writers and commentators who contribute essays and articles on a wide range of issues.
We shall continue to live up to our promise of giving a well packaged magazine to our readers while maintaining the highest level of professionalism, aesthetic values, respect for human dignity and a wholesome representation of the Catholic Faith.

This Edition

Front Page

These are strange times.

These are strange times. We began Lent with a different set of expectations on all facets of our lives. However, we have been shocked with the current realities of the times. The COVID-19 Pandemic turned everything upside down. No one expected a pandemic, not to talk of a global one.
Cover Choice

Mercy. Christianity: The two words are practically interchangeable

As I write, a friar from my own Dominican community is in quarantine waiting to board the USNS Mercy. Commissioned in the Naval Reserves, this Dominican friar has been called up to serve as chaplain on board the 1,000-bed floating hospital.
Our Faith

The Hope of Christ should be ours too »

The Hope of Christ should be ours too. Life is filled with struggle and strife. Yet, problems are not inherently bad. They serve a function, just as every aspect of our existence does. It is often said that trials come to be simply that: trials, a testing of our loyalty, our faith, and our hope in God.


Catholic Living

The True Depths of Christian Love »

The first most fundamental question posed to us through this Scripture is this: Do you wish to come after Jesus? Unless this question is answered first, the rest of what Jesus says will have no effect upon us. So let’s look at that question.

More Articles: Living

Winning Family

Thank God For This Lent »

Lent as we all know is a time we are given the opportunity to refrain from our sinful ways and return to God. We choose lifestyles which are not in line with Gods commandment, the most important of which is to “Love your God above all things.” We have failed, we worship and hunger for materialism, above our God, above Heaven.

Faith & Business

Three Temptations of a Christian Leader »

Too often, I looked at being relevant, popular and powerful as ingredients of an effective ministry. The truth, however, is that these are not vocations, but temptations. Jesus asks us to move from concern for relevance to a life of prayer, from worries about popularity to communal and mutual ministry, and from a leadership built on power to a leadership in which we critically discern where God is leading us and our people.


Young & Catholic

How to take the next steps into Catholic Adulthood? »

In today’s society, it can sometimes seem impossible for young people to live the teachings of Jesus Christ. Mixed messages are everywhere, telling young people the best way to find success, love, and happiness. But to be a follower of Christ is to live by an example that is different than that of our consumer society.


Tonic For The Soul

Overcoming Fear »

Fear is an essential human emotion, so it surely must have its proper place. Aristotle "Courage: in all circumstances the ability to judge rightly about the nature and extent of dangers." Yet there are different kinds of fear, or ways of fearing, and it is hard to know how to fear well. It is especially difficult to think clearly about this when much of the fear that we experience probably needs to be set aside, or in any case transformed or redirected.


Saint Of The Month

Saint Josephine Bakhita »
Feast Day: February 8
Patron Saint Of: Sudan
Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering.



Videos Of The Month


Catholics Must Fast More Intensely This Lent»

The Norbertine Canons of St. Michael's Abbey have created this digital Lenten retreat so that you can journey through this holy season alongside them. If you want to have one of your best Lenten seasons yet, join us in our Lenten Program "The Great Fast" - https://theabbotscircle.com/the-great-fast-join


When Your Faith Is Put to the Test - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon»

Friends, we come now to the Second Sunday of Lent, and we’re on both dangerous and very holy ground with the first reading from the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. The ancient Israelites referred to it as the “Akedah,” which means the “binding”: Abraham binds and is ready to sacrifice Isaac at God’s command.


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