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.

Clashes intensify in Syria’s Qusayr

By | 2013-05-25T15:20:07-04:00 May 25th, 2013|News|

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Sudan suspends two biggest newspapers for critical coverage

By | 2013-05-25T14:57:01-04:00 May 25th, 2013|News|

Sudan’s security services temporarily suspended the country’s two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on Saturday.   Sudan has clamped down on independent media, think tanks and non-governmental groups since it discovered plans for a coup against Bashir's

Christians Beatify Their Palestinian Nightmare

By | 2013-05-25T14:21:10-04:00 May 25th, 2013|Op-Eds|

Palestinian Arab Christians have chosen to support the side that wants to destroy Christianity. Hating Jews forges a bond between enemies.   The movie “The Stones Cry Out” by the Italian filmaker Yasmine Perni “gives a detailed account of the historical, cultural, and political place occupied by Christians in the recent history of the Palestinian

‘The Intifada is Here, Even if Media Hasn’t Said So’

By | 2013-05-24T19:51:51-04:00 May 24th, 2013|News|

More and more Israelis living in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) have come under attack as Palestinian Authority terrorist groups increase the frequency of assaults on drivers in the region. One of the victims is Michal Weisel, who shared her post-attack thoughts with Arutz Sheva.   Israelis need to take advantage of technology that can reinforce

British police arrest two more over London attack

By | 2013-05-23T22:01:04-04:00 May 23rd, 2013|News|

British police arrested two more people on Thursday in a hunt for accomplices of two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries.   The two suspected killers, now under guard in hospitals, had been known to security services before

Rage in London after ‘Unforgivable’ Beheading

By | 2013-05-23T20:12:24-04:00 May 23rd, 2013|Islam|

There is shock and fury in Britain following the gruesome murder of a soldier by Muslims in Woolwich, in southeastern London, on Wednesday. The murdered man was Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion.   "There is rage in London; the feelings are very bad,” a Jewish resident of Golders Green told Arutz

Head of Muslim group who knew London knifeman blames UK foreign policy

By | 2013-05-23T15:05:11-04:00 May 23rd, 2013|News|

The head of a banned British radical Islamist group who knew one of the men who hacked a soldier to death on London streets said on Thursday British foreign policy was to blame for the attack.   Anjem Choudary said Michael Adebolajo - filmed with his hands covered with blood, carrying a meat cleaver and

IAEA: Iran is expanding its nuclear activities

By | 2013-05-23T11:50:17-04:00 May 23rd, 2013|News|

Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear program, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new U.N. atomic agency report showed Wednesday.   The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest quarterly update said Tehran had accelerated the installation of advanced uranium enrichment equipment at its central Natanz plant.

Anti-Islamist protests flare following brutal London attack

By | 2013-05-23T11:26:39-04:00 May 23rd, 2013|News|

British police on Wednesday arrested two people as they tried to quell anti-Islamist disorder following the brutal murder in London of a man, believed to be a soldier.   A 43-year-old man was arrested in Braintree, east of London, after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife shortly after news broke of the London