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.

Who Said “Europe Will be Cleansed of Jews”?

By | 2013-12-29T10:53:25-04:00 December 29th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right. The West has been deceived by Iran and the U.S. military threat has never been less credible. A worse agreement could not have been signed in Geneva, where a religious revolution motivated by the establishment of an Islamic regime and by an annihilationist anti-Semitism was granted the right

Another dark Christmas for Iraq’s Christians

By | 2013-12-28T11:51:27-04:00 December 28th, 2013|News|

It’s Christmas in Baghdad, and once again Iraq’s Christians are celebrating behind blast walls and barbed wire.   At least 34 people died in bomb attacks in Christian areas on Wednesday, some by a car bomb near a church after a Christmas service. A church attack in 2010 killed dozens.   As prayers are offered

EU Official Warns Israel Over Planned Construction

By | 2013-12-28T11:21:04-04:00 December 28th, 2013|News|

The European Union (EU) is unhappy with reports that Israel plans to publish tenders for the sale of 1,400 housing units in Judea and Samaria, Channel 10 News reported on Thursday.   A senior EU official who spoke to the channel issued a direct warning to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying that the EU would

Egypt’s Defense Minister Vows to Fight Terrorism

By | 2013-12-28T11:05:52-04:00 December 28th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s Defense Minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, vowed on Thursday to fight terrorism and stabilize the deeply divided country, Al Arabiya reported.   The remarks came hours after an explosion hit a public bus in Cairo, killing one person and wounding at least five others.   “Do not worry or fear, the army will sacrifice

Israel’s Press: Taking Our Leave of America

By | 2013-12-28T10:50:31-04:00 December 28th, 2013|Op-Eds|

The Hebrew Makor Rishon's Editor-in-Chief penned a scathing editorial about Obama. But it is also being talked about because of accusations leveled at cetain retired IDF personnel.   Now that the best and brightest have finished their comparisons with Munich and Chamberlain, I wish to provide another, somewhat more shocking, comparison, one that in the

Egypt detains 18 MB members on terror charges

By | 2013-12-26T20:11:58-04:00 December 26th, 2013|News|

Egyptian security forces arrested on Thursday 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including a former lawmaker, a day after their organization was declared by the government a terrorist group.   Seven were detained for a renewable two-week period in the city of Alexandria and 11 in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig.   They include the son

PA: Strip Judea, Samaria Residents of Their Israeli Citizenship

By | 2013-12-26T19:26:08-04:00 December 26th, 2013|News|

Mohammed Shtayyeh, Member of the Central Committee of Fatah, a former Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet minister, accused the Israeli government of avoiding political agreements and employing a policy of "settlement" expansion, house demolitions and "killing civilians."    Shtayyeh was one of the negotiators who submitted his resignation to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas earlier this year. 

Muslim Brotherhood Blasts Terror Group Designation

By | 2013-12-26T13:21:44-04:00 December 26th, 2013|News|

A senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood blasted on Wednesday night the decision by Egypt’s interim government to declare the organization a “terrorist group”.   Speaking to AFP, Brotherhood member Ibrahim Munir made clear that the Islamists in Egypt would continue with their near-daily demonstrations despite the blacklist.   "The protests will continue, certainly," said

Egypt: We Thwarted a Hamas Attack

By | 2013-12-26T13:04:07-04:00 December 26th, 2013|News|

The Egyptian Army announced Wednesday that it had apprehended a Hamas terrorist in the northern Sinai Desert, Al-Arabiya reports.    The terrorist was named as Jumaa Khamis Mohammed Brayha, who claimed to stem from a powerful family in Hamas's ranks.    During interrogation, according to the Egyptian army, the young man admitted that he was