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.

‘People in London are shaking with fear’

By | 2017-06-04T12:38:21-04:00 June 4th, 2017|News|

London rabbi speaks to Arutz Sheva about terror attack, says British are 'always closer to Muslims.' By Hezki Baruch - Arutz Sheva Rabbinical Center of Europe member and London Rabbinical Court Head Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Lichtenstein spoke to Arutz Sheva on Sunday morning about the city's reaction to Saturday's terror attack, which killed six people.

Palestinian statehood is a grave threat to Saudi Arabia

By | 2017-06-03T11:27:19-04:00 June 3rd, 2017|Op-Eds|

Israel or America's concern? Even more than it endangers Israel, a Palestinian Arab state threatens Saudi Arabia and Jordan - and they know it. Opinion. By Mark Langfan - Arutz Sheva Introducing President Trump to the assembled 50 Muslim/Sunni Presidents on May 21, 2017, King Salman of Saudi Arabia spent 8 pages of text

Terror threat forces closure of German rock festival

By | 2017-06-03T02:31:45-04:00 June 3rd, 2017|News|

German authorities shut down popular rock music festival over possible terrorist threat. By Ben Ariel - Arutz Sheva German authorities on Friday shut down a popular rock music festival because of a possible terrorist threat, The Associated Press reports. The Rock am Ring festival was cleared out on its opening night after Koblenz police said

Spicer: Embassy move a question of when, not if

By | 2017-06-03T01:54:39-04:00 June 3rd, 2017|News|

Sean Spicer White House press secretary stresses that President Trump still intends to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. By Elad Benari - Arutz Sheva White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday stressed that President Donald Trump still intends to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to

Coptic Christians killed in Minya bus attack

By | 2017-05-29T23:48:22-04:00 May 29th, 2017|News|

Minya bus attack Children among bus passengers targeted while going to a monastery in Minya province, prompting hunt for the attackers. Aljazeera At least 28 Coptic Christians have been killed and dozens more wounded by armed men who attacked them while they were travelling to a monastery in Egypt's Minya province. https://youtu.be/JTSO9NiaqmI The

All badly quiet on the Western Front

By | 2017-05-29T23:04:14-04:00 May 29th, 2017|Op-Eds|

Cultural stasis, except for the West's Eastern front. By Giulio Meotti - Arutz Sheva Is ours really an age of deepening Western crisis — as it has certainly seemed, of late — or beneath all the populist sound and fury, does our society actually remain in a kind of stasis, stagnant but not close to