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.

IISIS Burns 45 Iraqis Alive in Latest Horrific Execution

By | 2015-02-17T18:56:11-04:00 February 17th, 2015|News|

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists apparently started a sickening new fad by burning a captured Jordanian pilot, a trend that was ramped up this week in al-Baghdadi in western Iraq where ISIS terrorists burned 45 people to death according to the local police chief.   Col. Qasim al-Obeidi said the victims' identities are not yet known

A Run Down of ISIS’s Hit List

By | 2015-02-17T14:24:04-04:00 February 17th, 2015|News|

AFP has rounded up the hit list of known killings by terrorists or movements linked to the jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) group, which announced Sunday it had beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.   ISIS, accused of crimes against humanity by the United Nations, has stepped up atrocities, including beheadings, abductions and crucifixions, in

Hamas and Fatah Sliding Towards Open War in Gaza

By | 2015-02-17T13:50:32-04:00 February 17th, 2015|News|

Despite having formed a unity agreement last April torpedoing peace talks, Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction seem to be slowly sliding into open warfare in Gaza, as an attempted assassination on a Fatah official on Monday caps off incessant back and forth car bombings.   Mamoon Sweidan, the Fatah official

ISIS ‘Morality Police’ Rules with Iron Fist

By | 2015-02-16T22:52:37-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Islamic State (ISIS)'s "morality police" is enforcing modest dress through a reign of terror, human rights organizations claim Monday.   The Al-Merced NGO reports that the city Albuhamal in the Deir al-Zor province of eastern Syria, the modesty squad attacked a woman because her eyes were too exposed to their liking. Two young men who

‘I’m Still Egypt’s President’, Insists Morsi as New Trial Begins

By | 2015-02-16T18:28:49-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was on Sunday placed on trial on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, but he once again declared that he does not recognize the court’s authority.   Morsi, who was toppled by the army in 2013 after mass protests against his rule,

Americans Believe ISIS ‘Greatest Threat’ to US

By | 2015-02-16T16:50:24-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Americans believe the Islamic State group poses the most serious threat to the United States in the next decade, according to a poll released Friday.   Eighty-four percent of those quizzed by Gallup said ISIS jihadists, who have grabbed large areas of Iraq and Syria in a brutal onslaught, and terrorism in general presented a

Nearly 100 Killed in Clashes Between Hezbollah, Syrian Rebels

By | 2015-02-16T16:01:41-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Nearly 100 fighters on both sides have been killed in a week of fighting in southern Syria between regime forces and rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.   The army, backed by fighters from Lebanon's powerful Shiite group Hezbollah, began an offensive at the beginning of the week in Daraa, the province

Egyptian Jets Strike Libya after ISIS Beheads Christians

By | 2015-02-16T14:30:51-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

It was the first time Egypt has publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya, where extreme Islamist groups have been ascendant since the ouster and elimination of long-time dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.   On Sunday night, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt reserves the right to retaliate against the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts

Sisi Vows to Respond to Beheadings of 21 Christians

By | 2015-02-16T02:27:34-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned on Sunday night that his country would respond to the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya by the Islamic State (ISIS).   Earlier, ISIS released a video purportedly showing the beheading of the Coptic Christians it had captured in the Libyan capital Tripoli.   The footage released online

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Supports Netanyahu’s Congress Speech

By | 2015-02-16T00:01:20-04:00 February 16th, 2015|News|

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has lent his support to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress, which has become an issue of contention between Democrats and Republicans as well as between Israel and the United States.   According to the Reuters news agency, Wiesel is urging President Barack