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.

Kerry Won’t Comment on Joint CIA-Mossad Assassination

By | 2015-02-02T13:01:10-04:00 February 2nd, 2015|News|

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he “doesn’t know the facts” when asked on Saturday about a report in the Washington Post, according to which the CIA and the Mossad were behind a plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in 2008.   Kerry, who spoke in Boston following a meeting with Canadian Foreign

‘Obama Needed to Put on His Big Boy Pants and Welcome Netanyahu’

By | 2015-02-02T05:03:35-04:00 February 2nd, 2015|News|

Senior political analyst Brit Hume spoke on Fox News this weekend about the uproar surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's impending speech before the United States Congress.    According to Hume, the situation is a "regular mess, which possibly could have been avoided if the Speaker of the House of Representatives had notified the White House

Tunisia Joins Israel as Only ‘Free’ Countries in Middle East

By | 2015-02-02T04:45:09-04:00 February 2nd, 2015|News|

2014 saw a distinct decline in global freedom, according to an annual report from the watchdog organization Freedom House released Sunday - with the Middle East the worst region for freedom worldwide.    The annual Freedom Report ranks 195 countries by political rights and civil liberties, with scores assigned to each country via a complicated

Syrian Rebel Video Shows Devastating Use of Attack Tunnel

By | 2015-02-01T15:09:18-04:00 February 1st, 2015|News|

Dramatic new video footage shows the Free Syrian Army (FSA) battling Assad's forces in the critically strategic city of Idlib in North-western Syria.   Idlib is the connector route between Aleppo and the Assad-dominated port of Latakia on the Mediterranean coastal area.   The originally rebel-published video highlights the rebels blowing up a massive Assad

Syria: At Least 7 Dead in Damascus Bus Bombing

By | 2015-02-01T14:55:05-04:00 February 1st, 2015|News|

At least seven people were killed when a blast ripped through a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in a central district of the Syrian capital on Sunday, a monitoring group said.   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear what had caused the blast near the Souq al-Hamadiyeh neighbourhood of Damascus.

Egyptian Court Blacklists Hamas’s ‘Military Wing’

By | 2015-02-01T14:24:49-04:00 February 1st, 2015|News|

An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the so-called “military wing” of Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization, Reuters reported.   Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which authorities in Cairo have also declared a terrorist group and have cracked down on since the army ousted one of its leaders, Mohammed Morsi,

‘Never Again’ in Europe is Just a Meaningless Slogan

By | 2015-02-01T00:30:41-04:00 February 1st, 2015|Op-Eds|

On Monday, award-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley charged that Europe never really grieved the Holocaust, and as a result has never properly come to terms with what happened, nor achieved real atonement for its crimes. As a result, he warned, Europe is in real danger of "sliding back."   Is he right?   On the

The Future of Jews in France, the Land of Apartheid

By | 2015-01-31T23:02:48-04:00 January 31st, 2015|Op-Eds|

January 20th marked the first time a prime minister of any Western nation admitted there is “apartheid” in his country. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated this fact to journalists less than 2 weeks after the January Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher killings. More specifically, he told them that there is a “territorial, social and ethnic

ISIS Executes Remaining Japanese Hostage

By | 2015-01-31T22:26:31-04:00 January 31st, 2015|News|

The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group released a video Saturday purportedly showing the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.   In it, Goto is seen kneeling, dressed in an orange outfit, as a masked man standing beside him with a knife blames the Japanese government for his "slaughter."   As in most previous ISIS execution

Muslims Gloat at Paris Kosher Market 2 Days After Attack

By | 2015-01-31T22:06:19-04:00 January 31st, 2015|News|

Islamist terrorist Amedy Coulibaly murdered four Jews at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris earlier this month while taking hostages and later being shot by police - just two days after the heinous attack, Muslim youths were outside the store gloating.   A group of French Muslims posted photos of themselves in front of