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.

Egypt military helicopters hit Sinai militants

By | 2013-09-14T02:15:23-04:00 September 14th, 2013|News|

Egyptian military helicopters on Friday carried out air strikes on Islamist militant positions in Sinai, two days after suicide bombers killed six soldiers in the restive peninsula, security sources said.   Apache helicopters targeted hideouts and vehicles used by the militants near the town of Sheikh Zuwayid in northern Sinai, the sources said.   On

AFDI’s speakers at 9/11 PRESS CONFERENCE AT GROUND ZERO, 9/11/13

By | 2013-09-14T01:30:01-04:00 September 14th, 2013|Media|

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AFDI PRESS CONFERENCE AT GROUND ZERO, 9/11/13

By | 2013-09-12T12:51:34-04:00 September 12th, 2013|News|

  The victims of the largest and bloodiest jihadi attack on the homeland in U.S. history had a voice today. The American Freedom Defense Initiative held a press conference at Ground Zero, despite the fact that the NYPD refused our repeated requests for a permit. A large crowd of several hundred gathered as an all-star

Russia Transferred S-300 Missiles into Syria

By | 2013-09-11T03:35:50-04:00 September 11th, 2013|News|

Russia has transferred several S-300 missile batteries into Syria, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported Tuesday. The transfers took place despite statements by Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, that Russia would not provide Syria with the advanced anti-aircraft system.   Al Rai claimed that Syria has accelerated the rate at which it ships arms

Egyptian inflation slows to 9.7 pct in August

By | 2013-09-11T03:15:05-04:00 September 11th, 2013|News|

Egypt’s urban consumer price inflation fell slightly in August, official figures showed on Tuesday, a slowdown attributed partly to a curfew to curb violence sparked by political turmoil, and to a strengthening in the national currency.   The state CAPMAS statistics agency said inflation fell in August to an annual 9.7 percent from 10.3 percent

Turkey: Sixth Anti-Government Protester Dies

By | 2013-09-11T02:53:31-04:00 September 11th, 2013|News|

A sixth protester has been killed in Turkey in connection to the "Gezi Park" protest movement.   22 year old Ahmet Atakan died in the southern province of Hatay, after reportedly being struck in the head by a teargas canister fired by Turkish police.    There have been conflicting reports regarding the nature of the

Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Aqsa is in Danger

By | 2013-09-11T02:41:54-04:00 September 11th, 2013|News|

Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem, has warned that comments by the Israeli Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, concerning the right of Jews to enter the Temple Mount and pray there, are “dangerous.”   Hussein said on Tuesday that Danino’s statements reflect Israel’s true intentions regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and therefore must not be ignored.