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.

Sexual Harassment Video Sparks Controversy in Cairo

By | 2014-03-21T03:06:39-04:00 March 21st, 2014|News|

A viral video of a Cairo University student being aggressively sexually harassed has sparked controversy across Egypt on Wednesday over women's rights and roles.    The video shows a blond-haired female student being subjected to a shocking level of verbal harassment simply for walking through the university campus. According to Al Arabiya, the student hid

The Truth About the Palestinian Water Libels

By | 2014-03-19T18:41:22-04:00 March 19th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology. Read the basic, undeniable facts in this article.   The Palestinians refuse to develop their own significant underground water resources, build a seawater desalination plant, fix massive leakage from their municipal water pipes,

Egypt must break silence and condemn religious crimes against Copts

By | 2014-03-19T14:52:59-04:00 March 19th, 2014|Press Releases|

On February 24, Islamists in Libya murdered Egyptian foreign workers execution-style after ascertaining their identities as Christians.    However, the brutal murders of Egyptian laborers (Christians) in Libya have yet to be condemned by Egypt’s interim government. To date, Egypt’s foreign minister and political leaders have made no public comment. When Egyptian laborers tattooed with

The Obama Interview that ‘Launched a Thousand’ MANPADS

By | 2014-03-19T13:02:41-04:00 March 19th, 2014|Op-Eds|

A recent January 27, 2014 New Yorker interview of direct, Obama-vetted quotes by President Obama himself describing his Middle East policy is bound to cause a titanic battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.   The specific President Obama quoted statement in the New Yorker interview was:   "If we were able to get Iran to

Hamas Slams Egypt’s Siege of Gaza

By | 2014-03-19T12:38:02-04:00 March 19th, 2014|News|

Gaza's Hamas terrorist rulers on Tuesday sharply criticized Egypt's closure of the Rafiah border crossing, saying Cairo's tightening of restrictions on Gaza was a "crime against humanity," AFP reported.   "The Egyptian authorities' insistence on closing the Rafiah crossing and tightening the Gaza blockade... is a crime against humanity by all standards and a crime

Saudi Cleric Claims: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth

By | 2014-03-19T12:06:04-04:00 March 19th, 2014|Islam|

We have all been taught at school that the Earth revolves around the sun, but, according to a senior Saudi cleric, we’ve been misled.   In fact, Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, recently claimed in a televised interview that not only does the Earth not revolve around the sun,

Erekat: Israel Must Choose – ‘Settlements’ or Peace

By | 2014-03-18T17:30:55-04:00 March 18th, 2014|News|

The chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Monday once again blamed Israel for the lack of progress in peace talks, saying that the Israelis must choose between “settlements” and peace.   Speaking with reporters following PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, Erekat accused Israel of having built more than

Ashraf Ramelah’s Letter to Churches for Voice of the Copts

By | 2014-03-18T17:02:41-04:00 March 18th, 2014|Reports|

After personal encounters with various Christian denominations I was prompted to write the following letter.   Please feel free to print copies and distribute to churches in your community.   Dear Church Leaders   Is your church paying homage to Islam? Did your church fall prey to the disinformation campaign spread by Islamic influencers as