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.

European MP: EU Parliament Ignores Anti-Semitism

By | 2014-12-01T08:04:09-04:00 December 1st, 2014|News|

European Parliament Member Bastiaan Belder of the Netherlands has urged the parliament to hold a debate on anti-Semitism. "It's a shame that this has not been done before,'' he said.   Belder made his latest comments in an address at the annual conference of the European Coalition for Israel (ECI), a Christian initiative promoting European-Israeli

Netanyahu Warns France on ‘Palestine’ Vote

By | 2014-11-30T18:26:22-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned France's parliament Sunday against recognizing a Palestinian state in a vote on December 2.   "Do they have nothing better to do at a time of beheadings across the Middle East, including that of a French citizen?" he asked reporters in Jerusalem, referring to hiker Herve Gourdel who was executed

Somali Terrorists Separate Muslims Before Slaughtering

By | 2014-11-30T16:53:13-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

Somali terrorists of the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab organization murdered 28 people in an attack on a bus in Kenya's northeastern Mandera county on Saturday - before shooting their victims in the head they separated out the Muslims.   Around ten heavily-armed terrorists stopped the bus bound for Nairobi not far from the Somali border, forced

Boko Haram Attack Kills At Least 45 in Nigeria

By | 2014-11-30T16:37:09-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, AFP reported on Thursday.   The attack happened in the village of Azaya Kura in the Mafa area of Borno state on Wednesday, the caretaker chairman of Mafa local government area, Shettima Lawan said, calling it "wicked and despicable".  

Spanish Lawmakers Call for Recognition of ‘Palestine’

By | 2014-11-30T16:04:40-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

Spanish lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday calling on the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reported.   The motion submitted by the opposition Socialists asks the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by the European Union.   It was adopted nearly unanimously in the lower house of parliament, with

French ISIS Terrorist Likely Involved in Kassig Beheading

By | 2014-11-30T15:00:32-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

The French Interior Ministry on Monday admitted there is a "very strong probability" that one of the ISIS terrorists who committed the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig and at least 18 Syrian soldiers is a French citizen.   "There is a very strong probability that a French citizen was directly involved in these

Secret EU Document Reveals Israel Sanctions Policy

By | 2014-11-30T11:40:38-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

The European Union (EU) has sent a secret document to its 28 member states detailing sanctions to be taken against Israel, if it takes moves the EU feels compromises the creation of an Arab state of 'Palestine' inside Israel.   The paper, drafted by the European External Action Service (EEAS), was distributed to European diplomats

Cuba Rejects Erdogan’s Offer to Build Country’s First Mosque

By | 2014-11-30T11:23:03-04:00 November 30th, 2014|News|

Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's offer to build the country's first mosque.   Erdogan's offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus.   "Muslim sailors arrived in America from

Bomb Explodes Near Train Station in Southern Egypt

By | 2014-11-23T16:25:38-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

A bomb went off near a train station in southern Egypt Saturday night, as police found three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks in the region, the government said, according to AFP.   A charred body was found near the railway station in Wasta, a town in the province of Beni Suef, the interior

New Hezbollah Rockets Can Hit Dimona Nuclear Plant

By | 2014-11-23T15:51:05-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

The Iranian-proxy terrorist group Hezbollah based in Lebanon has acquired new sophisticated rockets from Iran that are capable of hitting Israel's nuclear plant in Dimona, according to reports Saturday in the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency.   The reports indicate the terrorist group has gotten its hands on new Fateh-class rockets that feature a range