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The article discusses three separate incidents: an indictment of a pastor in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod for attempting to reverse the 2020 presidential election, Sweden raising its terror alert due to Qur'an burnings by an asylum seeker and the Nicaraguan government's seizure of Jesuit property and the declaration of the religious order as illegal. These incidents involve legal and political tensions related to religion.

The author denounces the desecration of the Qur'an as religious torture against Muslim detainees suspected as terrorists at Guantánamo. He criticizes the provision of Qur'an to detainees and then use it as a way to torture them. He stresses that Muslims treat Qur'an holy because they believe it is the Word of God unlike Christians who are careless of the Bible. He contends that the U.S. should use other punishment than using Qur'an as instrument of torture if the country does not want to inflame hostility from Sunni Muslims around the world.

This section offers international news briefs about religion. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that state-funded schools in Italy are allowed to display crucifixes in classrooms without violating students' religious rights. A bill was launched that requires abortion clinics in Virginia to comply with hospital safety regulations rather than as doctors' offices. A conflict between Christians and Muslims over allegations of Qur'an desecration resulted in burned churches in Ethiopia.

Focuses on the alleged desecration of Qur'an at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba that was reported in the "Newsweek" newspaper in the U.S. on May 9, 2005. Retraction of the report issued by the U.S. State Department and the newspaper editor Mark Whitaker; Views of Imam Muzammil Siddiqui, leader of the Islamic Society of Orange, California, on the Qur'an; Details of the Exploring the Qur'an program launched by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Presents updates on several issues in the U.S. as of June 2005. Background on the Social Security program in the country; Information on a request by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to the U.S. Congress regarding the Darfur Accountability Act; Response of the Danieltown Baptist Church in North Carolina to the desecration of the Qur'an by U.S. guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The article presents the author's opinions regarding the accidental desecration of Qur'ans in Afghanistan in February 2012. Comments are given reviewing the events and responses to the scandal. The official apology made by U.S. President Barack Obama is mentioned and supported. It is further asserted that after 11 years of presence in Afghanistan, U.S. forces should be able to demonstrate better sensitivity to Afghan religious sensibilities.

The author deals with the religious abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, Cuba based on a report issued by the U.S. Senate. He cites that previously reported abuses include desecration of the Qur'an, ridicule of prayer and sexual abuse aimed at undermining piety. He states that the Senate report listed many interrogation techniques which involve religious abuses. He notes that the perception that the U.S. is against Islam poses a threat to its national security.

Focuses on the insensitivity of the U.S. on Islamic religious and cultural practices. Efforts of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to improve the values and overseas image of his country; Impact of the desecration of Qur'an by a U.S. interrogator at a prison detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on U.S. journalism; Background on the film "Kingdom of Heaven," directed by Ridley Scott.