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.

“SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE” – RALLY AND PRESS CONFERENCE

By | 2015-01-12T15:39:57-04:00 January 12th, 2015|Press Releases|

  All groups should plan to arrive between 10:30 and 11:00 am for assembly and staging. Parking is difficult, so leave plenty of time. Directions and transportation information is on Facebook Events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/750933898328810/    The event will be staged according to the following graphic layout diagram below. The podium with microphones will be midpoint

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Northern Lebanon

By | 2015-01-12T14:45:57-04:00 January 12th, 2015|News|

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded cafe in the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli Saturday evening, killing nine people and wounding more than 30, a security source told The Daily Star.   Another suicide bomber blew himself up outside the coffee shop, according to unconfirmed reports.

Hamas-Linked Publication Praises ‘Heroic’ Paris Terrorists

By | 2015-01-12T14:14:34-04:00 January 12th, 2015|News|

A Hamas-linked publication has praised the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and hailed those responsible as "martyrs".   An image posted on Friday evening to the Facebook page of the Al-Rasalah publication featured the faces of the three Islamist terrorists eliminated by French security forces Friday, with a caption reading: "The shahidim [martyrs] who were

Hamas Condemns Charlie Hebdo Attack – But Not Murder of Jews

By | 2015-01-12T13:39:01-04:00 January 12th, 2015|News|

Hamas released a statement on Saturday condemning the killing of 12 people in an attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's offices - but was notably silent on the murder of four French Jews in a terrorist attack on Friday.   A statement in French said Hamas "condemns the attack against Charlie Hebdo magazine and

ISIS Communications Claim Paris Attacks ‘Just the Beginning’

By | 2015-01-12T00:53:21-04:00 January 12th, 2015|News|

EU and US security ministers met at France's interior ministry on Sunday to work out a joint response to the threat of jihadist attacks following days of carnage in Paris by three terrorists claiming to act on behalf of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) group.   The gathering was being held just hours ahead

German Paper that Printed Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Attacked

By | 2015-01-12T00:27:37-04:00 January 12th, 2015|News|

The offices of a German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons was the target of an arson attack early Sunday morning.    Vandals threw rocks at the offices of Hamburg Morgenpost, which published copies of cartoons by the French satirical magazine at the center of a terrorist massacre in Paris on Wednesday.    Many other

French Officers Warned of Active ‘Sleeper Cells’

By | 2015-01-11T23:48:45-04:00 January 11th, 2015|News|

French law enforcement officers have been told to delete their social media accounts and to carry their weapons at all times because terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours in the country, a French police source who attended a briefing Saturday told CNN.   According to the report, Ahmedy Coulibaly, who

Denmark Vows to Stay ‘On Frontline’ against ISIS Jihadists

By | 2015-01-11T22:58:05-04:00 January 11th, 2015|News|

Denmark's commitment to fighting Islamic State jihadists will not be swayed by attacks like the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the country's defence minister said Saturday at a rally to commemorate the Paris victims.   "Denmark's hands are not shaking because some terrorists are trying to scare us," Defence Minister Nicolai Wammen told local news agency Ritzau

Wife-Accomplice of Paris Kosher Store Attacker Could be in Syria

By | 2015-01-11T17:16:39-04:00 January 11th, 2015|News|

A French police source has revealed that the "armed and dangerous" wife of Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who murdered four Jewish shoppers at a kosher store on Friday, was not in France.   According to the Le Monde newspaper, the source claimed that 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, was not in France at the time of the

4 Hostages Dead in Paris Kosher Supermarket

By | 2015-01-11T16:58:20-04:00 January 11th, 2015|News|

Three tense days in France have come to an end, but not without tragedy, as five people were killed, including the gunman, and four were left critically wounded after a hostage drama in eastern Paris ended with a police assault on Friday, AFP reports.   Gunfire erupted as police stormed the Hypercasher supermarket, where at