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.

New York: Muslim Teen Arrested After Harrassing Jew on Subway

By | 2013-04-21T02:12:13-04:00 April 21st, 2013|Islam|

New York Police arrested last week a Muslim teen on suspicion of yelling out anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish man on the subway in Brooklyn.   The incident began when the teen called out towards the Jew, "They should have killed all of you." He then tried to resist arrest when police were called to

Boston Marathon bomber manhunt: Police nab suspect alive

By | 2013-04-20T03:05:15-04:00 April 20th, 2013|News|

Police have nabbed the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber, after a day-long manhunt that completely shut down the city of Boston and several suburbs and left one police officer dead. Some Bostonians flooded into the streets cheered the news, celebrating an end to five days of fear since the bombs wounded more than 175 people

Muslim Brotherhood Links Boston Attack to Anti-Islam Conspiracy

By | 2013-04-20T02:04:02-04:00 April 20th, 2013|News|

A leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday linked the Boston bombings to an anti-Islam conspiracy.   In a post on his personal Facebook page Muslim Brotherhood Vice President Essam el-Erian suggested the attack was part of a global plot to discredit Islam, citing violence in Mali, Syria, Somalia and other Muslim nations, The Hill

Radical Egyptian Cleric: Boston Bombing Meant to Send a Message

By | 2013-04-20T01:49:55-04:00 April 20th, 2013|Islam|

A radical Egyptian Salafi cleric said that the terror attack in Boston this week was meant to send a message to the West, that terrorists are alive and well.   The cleric, Sheik Murgan Salem, also warned that similar attacks were expected in France. Salem made the comments during an interview on Tahrir TV on

Brotherhood’s anti-judiciary rally turns violent in Cairo

By | 2013-04-19T17:40:38-04:00 April 19th, 2013|News|

At least 30 Egyptians were wounded on Friday in clashes between liberal opposition activists and thousands of Islamists rallying outside the Supreme Court in central Cairo demanding “the cleansing of the judiciary,” Al Arabiya TV reported.   Opposition activists fear the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to purge many judges so Islamists can install new ones more

Jordanian Islamists reject U.S. troop deployment

By | 2013-04-19T17:27:00-04:00 April 19th, 2013|News|

Jordan’s Islamist opposition on Friday denounced the presence of US troops in the kingdom due to deteriorating security in neighboring Syria, urging a rethink of the deployment.   “The government must review its decision to authorize the deployment of foreign troops on Jordanian soil,” the Islamic Action Front, political arm of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood,

Boston bombing suspects showed few radical signs

By | 2013-04-19T17:10:52-04:00 April 19th, 2013|News|

The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic and showed few outward signs of radicalism in the United States.   Much is still unknown about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, named by a national security official as suspects in the twin

Voices from the Middle East

By | 2013-04-19T15:48:34-04:00 April 19th, 2013|Events|

Christian influence is rapidly disappearing from the Middle East. Because of ethnic and religious persecution, many Middle Eastern Christians are leaving their homelands and becoming refugees, while those who remain suffer increasing harassment and violence. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about 20 percent of the Middle Eastern population was Christian. Today, the percentage