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.

What lies beneath: 2000 BC tomb in Oman discovered

By | 2012-12-31T12:02:22-04:00 December 31st, 2012|Archeology and History|

While building a new border check post in the northern coastal Aswad province of Oman, the squad of Royal Oman Police (ROP) discovered ancient artifacts, settlements and tombs dating back to 2000 BC.   Once the ROP team reported the discovery of the ancient graves in Aswad’s Shinas town, the crew of Sultan Qaboos University

Obama Admits ‘Huge Problems’ in Benghazi Security

By | 2012-12-31T01:35:31-04:00 December 31st, 2012|News|

President Barack Obama admitted Sunday that a probe into the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya had uncovered a "huge problem" in security procedures at the mission.   "We're not going to be defensive about it," Obama said in an interview recorded on Saturday for NBC's “Meet the Press.”   "We're not going

Today’s Widespread Christian Persecution: One Example

By | 2012-12-30T22:48:10-04:00 December 30th, 2012|Interviews|

Christians are persecuted today in many part of the world. Here in the United States we are fortunate that we do not have to live our lives under this constant threat.     However, in areas like Egypt and China persecution against Christians is widespread.   There is plenty of information on this situation via

Bomb kills 2 at Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s 3rd-largest city, Misrata

By | 2012-12-30T22:09:06-04:00 December 30th, 2012|News|

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says an explosion at an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s third largest city, Misrata, has killed two people and wounded two others.   The statement by the Foreign Ministry says Sunday’s explosion killed two Egyptian citizens working at the church in preparation for traditional New Year’s Eve mass. Egypt’s ambassador visited the

Northern Nigeria:Fifteen Christians Have Throats Slit by Boko Haram

By | 2012-12-30T20:29:43-04:00 December 30th, 2012|Press Releases|

12/30/2012 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that at least fifteen Christians were killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria. The militants snuck into Musari, a neighborhood located on the outskirts of Maiduguri, early on Friday morning and slit the throats of fifteen Christians in their own

Al Qaeda Wants to Kill Another US Ambassador

By | 2012-12-30T19:47:23-04:00 December 30th, 2012|News|

Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen offer $160,000 in gold for killing the US ambassador, three months after the US envoy to Libya was murdered.   The US State Dept. presumably will take the matter more seriously than it did when senior officials ignored events leading up to the brutal killing of Christopher Stevens on September

French paper to publish comic book life of Prophet Mohammed

By | 2012-12-30T15:35:07-04:00 December 30th, 2012|News|

A French weekly known for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative Muslims said Sunday it plans to release a comic book biography of Islam’s founder that will be researched and educational.   Satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has on several occasions depicted Islam’s prophet in an effort to defend free speech

Egypt to Pursue a Relationship with Hizbullah

By | 2012-12-30T15:14:40-04:00 December 30th, 2012|News|

Egypt will pursue a relationship with the Hizbullah terror group as a “real political and military force” on the ground in Lebanon, the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon told the Lebanese newspaper Daily Star on Saturday.   Speaking after Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-backed new constitution was signed in to law, Ambassador Ashraf Hamdy said Egypt would keep

Abbas Makes It Official: All of Israel is Palestine

By | 2012-12-30T14:49:28-04:00 December 30th, 2012|News|

The Fatah party, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has made official what it has been saying quietly and has adopted a new logo showing all of Israel as Palestine.   The logo marks the 48th anniversary of the founding of Fatah by Yasser Arafat and includes a map with the PA flag and

Chiselled stonework with ‘Christian figure’ discovered at holy site in Yemen

By | 2012-12-30T00:34:49-04:00 December 30th, 2012|Archeology and History|

An Archaeologist has discovered what he believes to be the ruins of a buried Christian empire in the highlands of Yemen.   The find has led to theories that there may have once been a Christian church in Mecca.   A stone carving of a Christian figure was found in Zafar, some 581 miles south