Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

About Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah is the founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights nonprofit organization 501 (c) (3). The organization has offices in Italy and the United States. Dr. Ramelah is dedicated to the Coptic cause and believes that his life’s mission is to speak up for the oppressed Copts who cannot speak up for themselves. When he is not meeting with political figures and policy makers, Dr. Ramelah spends his time travelling throughout the country giving talks about the Coptic issue and explaining to the West the oppression against the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Ramelah was invited to address the European Parliament (2010) and to be the keynote speaker in the Italian Parliament (2011) on the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt. He has done various interviews with Italian newspapers and appears frequently in the Italian and Arab Media. Dr. Ramelah is a featured author at Arutz Sheva, American Thinker, Family Security Matters.com, Canada Free Press and others. Dr. Ramelah is well known to the Egyptian government due to his advocacy for the Egyptian Copts as well as for Voice of the Copts’ lawsuit against them on behalf of Muslim convert to Christianity Mr. Hegazy and his family in 2009-2010. Ashraf Ramelah also appears as an entry in the Coptic History Encyclopedia (http://www.coptichistory.org/new_page_5260.htm). Dr. Ramelah, himself a Copt, was born in Cairo, Egypt. At the age of 17, he travelled to Italy to study architecture. He graduated with a doctorate in architecture from La Sapienza – Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma,Italy. His special study is restoration of old monuments and history of architecture. His career as an architect took him to work and live in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Gabon and the USA. His personal interests are Egyptology and Coptic history in the period after the Arab invasion of Egypt in 651 AD. Voice of the Copts is dedicated to bringing fair, correct and balanced information to the entire world regarding Copts and Christians in countries with an Arab-Muslim majority.

Oslo Jewish-Muslim Event Organizer: Jews Behind 9/11

By | 2015-02-23T04:42:13-04:00 February 23rd, 2015|News|

One of the principal organizers of a “Peace Ring” event in Oslo is a “9/11 Denier” - someone who denies that the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 was committed not by Arab terrorists, but by Jews. Ali Chishti, one of eight organizers of the joint Jewish-Muslim event, which was supposed

Who Was Kayla Mueller?

By | 2015-02-22T21:33:22-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|Op-Eds|

A look at the writings of the ISIS victim shows her support and aid to Palestinian Arab terror groups, her acting as a human shield for them, and her active participation in anti-Israel protests. Rachel Corrie did the same.   Sadly, she was allegedly killed by the Jordanian air raid attacks according to ISIS who

New ISIS Video Shows Kurdish Fighters Paraded in Cages

By | 2015-02-22T20:17:22-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

The Islamic State jihadist group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages.     The video shows 21 captives presented as 16 peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and three policemen from Kirkuk, a city about 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad.

Hamas Slams Egyptian Media Over ‘Incitement and Deception’

By | 2015-02-22T15:03:55-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday slammed what he described as a campaign of "incitement and deception" by a number of Egyptian journalists against the Palestinian people in Gaza.   According to the Ma’an news agency, Abu Zuhri denied reports that Palestinian Arabs have been traveling via tunnels into Egypt recently, denouncing what he

Yemenite Popular Army Founded Against Iran-Backed Houthis

By | 2015-02-22T14:54:35-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

Despite the UN envoy's efforts to reach a political solution, the struggle for control by the Iranian backed Houthi Shi'ite militia is only escalating in Yemen after they captured the capital city of Sana'a and toppled the government.   The UN is seeking a solution by which the temporary Houthi parliament will be recognized in

Iran Responds to Liberman: We’ll Destroy Tel Aviv in 10 Minutes

By | 2015-02-22T14:38:06-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

A senior figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Mujtabi Du Al-Nour, threatened on Saturday that Iran will destroy Tel Aviv in ten minutes if Israel "makes a mistake" and strikes the Islamic regime's nuclear facilities.   Al-Nour, who is a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a talk with journalists responded to

Egypt Acquits Ex-Minister over Israel Gas Deal

By | 2015-02-22T14:21:34-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

An Egyptian court acquitted on Saturday an oil minister who served under ex-strongman Hosni Mubarak in a retrial after a 2012 conviction for selling Israel natural gas at below market price.   The Cairo court acquitted former oil minister Sameh Fahmi along with five other petroleum officials.   An appeals court ordered a retrial in

Netanyahu: Iran Hiding its Nuclear Intentions

By | 2015-02-22T14:07:40-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Iran is hiding its intentions to produce nuclear weapons from the world.   Netanyahu’s comments came in response to a new report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which says it has made little progress in its attempts to probe allegations that Iran worked on

Kurds Advance Towards ISIS De Facto Capital

By | 2015-02-22T02:21:28-04:00 February 22nd, 2015|News|

Syrian Kurdish and rebel forces, backed by US-led air strikes, advanced on Thursday into Raqa province, where the jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) group has its de facto capital, a monitor said.   "The YPG (Kurdish People's Protection Units) and rebel forces captured 19 villages in Raqa province," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reports

ISIS Kidnaps More Egyptians

By | 2015-02-21T23:23:32-04:00 February 21st, 2015|Reports|

In what appears to be a gathering battle, Egyptian officials said Thursday that Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Libya have kidnapped ten Egyptian nationals.   The kidnappings took place in Tripoli, where fighting between ISIS, the Libyan government, and other rebel groups is taking place.   The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that it had received