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.

Former slave and Sudanese Freedom Leader Simon Deng

By | 2014-08-23T20:13:00-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|Media|

Simon Deng speaks at AFDI Rally for Israel and Persecuted Minorities Under Islam    Robert Spencer introduces Simon Deng at AFDI Pro-Israel rally for persecuted minorities under the boot of Islamic jihad and sharia.    The Huffington Post mocked this towering figure.   For the first time, defenders of Israel and representatives of minorities persecuted

New Group in Cairo Threatens to Carry Out Terror Attacks

By | 2014-08-23T16:52:33-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

A video has surfaced of a new terrorist group in Cairo that has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt.   The group, which calls itself the "Helwan Brigades", released a video in which its members are seen holding weapons and saying, "Our message to [the Interior Ministry] is that you are our targets."

Iraq: Kurdish Forces Retake Mosul Dam from ‘Islamic State’

By | 2014-08-23T15:45:48-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq have retaken the country's largest dam from Islamic State forces, in an important strategic advance.   Backed by US air support Kurdish fighters ended IS's 11-day control of the dam, which gave them effective control of northern Iraq's water and electricity supply. There were also fears the Islamists could

Hamas Threatens Terror in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria

By | 2014-08-23T14:57:52-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

The Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza on Sunday called for an escalation of terror attacks on Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as an "expression of support" for the war on Israel being waged from Gaza.   Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum told the Palestinian Arab Safa news agency that such terror attacks serve to wear down the

Yazidis Commit Mass-Suicide After Rape by Islamic State Fighters

By | 2014-08-23T11:08:11-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

In yet another harrowing chapter in the tragic plight of Iraq's Kurdish Yazidi population, eyewitnesses have described how girls raped by Muslim fighters from the "Islamic State" (formerly ISIS) committed suicide en-masse after returning to their families, as evidence of systematic rape by Islamists against non-Muslims continue to surface.   Among the tens of thousands

Intelligence: Islamic State Planning Terror Attack in US, Europe

By | 2014-08-23T10:42:15-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

Members of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) are planning to carry out major terror attacks against targets in the United States or in Europe, American intelligence officials said Saturday.   Five intelligence officials stated to Bloomberg News that there is evidence that the organization is running a sleeper cells around the world, outside

Union Square Rally for Israel a success but not loud enough to snag media coverage

By | 2014-08-23T09:58:30-04:00 August 23rd, 2014|News|

Journalist Marion Dreyfus over at The American Thinker is struck by the media’s deafening silence on our rally for those slaughtered, persecuted and oppressed in jihadi wars and under Islamic law.   CBS was there, but only mentioned that a “a pro-Israel” rally was held in Union Square, while citing the bogus number of dead