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.

Egyptian Prosecutors Ask for Death Sentence for Morsi

By | 2014-11-23T15:22:41-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

Egypt's state news agency reported on Wednesday that prosecutors have asked for the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on trial on espionage charges.   According to The Associated Press (AP), prosecutor Emad el-Sharawy said in closing remarks that Morsi and his aides leaked state security documents to

Abbas’s PA and Fatah Celebrate ‘Heroic’ Jerusalem Attack

By | 2014-11-23T10:53:20-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's adviser and members of his Fatah faction have come out and directly praised the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday in which five Israelis were murdered in a synagogue, after Abbas's office made a perfunctory condemnation of the attack.   Abbas's adviser Sultan Abu Al-Einen, who praised another terrorist

PA Clarifies: ‘Abbas is Inciting for Religious War’

By | 2014-11-23T10:24:05-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen may have claimed Tuesday after the Har Nof attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "isn't inciting terrorism" - but that appraisal is completely wrong according to Abbas's own adviser.   Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed on Tuesday that PA Supreme Sharia (Islamic law)

CIA Blunder? Kurdish Leader Says ISIS Has ‘200,000 Fighters’

By | 2014-11-23T09:31:43-04:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

The CIA and other intelligence services have estimated the fighting strength of Islamic State (ISIS) to be no more than 31,500 terrorists - but according to a senior Kurdish officer, that number is actually at least 200,000.   Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdish Region President Massoud Barzani, told the Britain's The

Hamas Leader: We Plan to Carry Out Terror from Judea and Samaria

By | 2014-11-22T21:29:43-04:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar declared on Sunday that the terrorist movement is planning to develop its capabilities to carry out terror attacks against Israel from Judea and Samaria, and that it intends to continue to lead the Palestinian camp which advocates for armed struggle until Israel is destroyed.   Al-Zahar, who spoke in Gaza,

Iranian Cleric Threatens to ‘Raze Tel Aviv, Haifa to the Ground’

By | 2014-11-22T21:04:33-04:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

A leading Iranian cleric has threatened to "raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground" if Israel attacks the country over its nuclear program.   Speaking in a televised public sermon in the capital Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani boasted that "the Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raise to the ground any place in Israel,

Sinai Jihadists Claim Attack Which Killed 30 Soldiers

By | 2014-11-22T19:22:54-04:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest terrorist group which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last month that killed 30 soldiers, AFP reported on Saturday.   The group made the claim in a video posted on social media, according to the report.   Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has killed scores of

UAE Names Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

By | 2014-11-22T18:57:50-04:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing state news agency WAM.   The Gulf Arab state has also designated the Syrian based Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS),    whose fighters are battling Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as terrorist organizations,