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22 December, 2025

Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman. © SomaliaatUN

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Somalia is set to assume the presidency of the United Nations Security Council in January 2026. The presidency rotates monthly among Council members and gives each member responsibility for setting agendas, presiding over meetings, and managing the body’s work.

UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said she met with Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, in his capacity as the incoming President of the Security Council for January 2026, adding: “We discussed the programme of work for Somalia’s Presidency of the Security Council, with a focus on rule of law, and we also discussed the Secretary-General selection process.”

Somalia’s election to the UN Security Council in 2024 marked its return to one of the organization’s most influential bodies after a 54-year absence; the country had last served on the Council in the early 1970s. Somalia is scheduled to assume its new role as chair of the Security Council on January 1, 2026.

On 6 June 2024, the United Nations General Assembly held a secret ballot in which Somalia secured its seat by winning the required two‑thirds majority. Out of the 193 member states, Somalia received 179 votes. Security Council elections are held annually in June, with five of the ten non-permanent seats up for election each year. These seats are allocated by regional groupings: Africa and Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Europe and Other States. Candidates must win a two-thirds majority of ballots cast by member states present and voting in the General Assembly.

What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center

What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center

Harrison Hanvey

A migrant being detained by ICE outside of Immigration Court in Harlingen, Texas. (Brian Strassburger, SJ)

Note: The names and countries of origin of those mentioned have been changed.

“Look for the red car in the parking lot behind the metro station.”

That’s where I met the other people with whom I traveled to an immigration detention center in rural Virginia, several hours from my own home. A friend of mine who works with immigration attorneys invited me to go and interpret between English and Spanish speakers and to assist the lawyers. I jumped at the opportunity. I’d never been to a detention center before and have rarely been to jails or prisons.

I was especially interested since the news this past year has been so filled with stories of immigrants being detained and deported. The government says that they are all criminals and the “worst of the worst.” Advocates say that they are mostly innocent mothers, fathers, teens and beloved community members. One thing everyone agrees on is that the number of migrants in detention is the most it’s ever been, and that the number of people being deported is sky high.

I wanted to see for myself who was actually being detained.

Jesuits were among those who gathered outside the Broadview Detention Facility in Broadview, Illinois, on November 1, requesting to offer Communion to migrants:

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Meet Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol Chief in Charge of Trump’s Chicago Crackdown: ‘No Sanctuary Here’

CNN | October 8, 2025, 1:11 pm

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is interviewed at CNN’s bureau in Chicago on Oct. 7, 2025. (Mustafah Hussain for CNN via CNN Newsource)

Chicago (CNN) — The heavily armed agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement push in Chicago are often masked. The man leading them is not.

Nearly three decades into his career with the US Border Patrol, Gregory Bovino has become the on-the-ground face of Trump’s effort to surge federal law enforcement into blue states and cities regardless of whether local officials want them there — first in Los Angeles, now in Chicago, with other possible cities on deck.

But if he and his officers are an unwelcome presence or face interference from protesters, Bovino said he is not dissuaded.

“We’re going to carry out that mission,” Bovino said in an interview with CNN in Chicago on Tuesday. “And that’s paramount, or else we shouldn’t be here. We’re going to carry that mission out.”

He added that if “someone steps in the way, then … that may not work out well for them, and if we need to effect an arrest of a U.S. citizen or anyone else, then we’ll do that.”

Local officials have described Bovino as leading a branch of law enforcement which deploys tactics that are frighteningly authoritarian and which has been styled into Trump’s own personal police force, used by the president as a cudgel against Democrat-led localities and the people — citizens and noncitizens alike — who live in them.

“I refuse to let Trump, Noem and Bovino continue on this march toward autocracy,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday. “Their plan all along has been to cause chaos, and then they can use that chaos to consolidate Trump’s power.”

Catholic leaders acknowledge tension between Trump immigration policy and religious liberty

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump gesture during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Sept. 11, 2025, marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

Catholic leaders acknowledge tension between Trump immigration policy and religious liberty

September 16, 2025
By Kate Scanlon

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The same week President Donald Trump spoke at a hearing of the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission in Washington, a key Catholic bishop said some of his immigration policies risk presenting the church with religious liberty challenges.

“It is interesting that since the administration has put a large amount of emphasis on all kinds of liberty right, including religious liberty, that we find ourselves in this conflict on some of these court cases recently,” Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, told reporters before a roundtable discussion on migration issues hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.

Trump in May signed an executive order creating a religious liberty commission, which includes Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minn. Bishop Seitz noted their presence on the commission, saying, “a couple of our bishops belong to it; and there’s also an advisory committee, more bishops belong to it.”

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala speaks during a roundtable titled “Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity: on Catholic Principles, Human Costs, and Pastoral Challenges” at Georgetown University in Washington Sept. 11, 2025. Also pictured is Sister Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, who is executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. (OSV News photo/Rafael Suanes, courtesy Georgetown University)

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