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.

Assad claims: Western nations are secretly doing deals with us

By | 2016-07-19T20:51:40-04:00 July 19th, 2016|News|

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is hinting that Western nations, including Australia, are secretly doing deals with his country despite openly criticizing him and calling on him to step down.   Assad made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Australia's SBS News.   He accused Western countries of “double standards” for openly criticizing his government,

Amnesty: Syrian rebels and jihadists are guilty of war crimes

By | 2016-07-19T20:36:25-04:00 July 19th, 2016|News|

Islamist rebels and jihadists in Syria are guilty of war crimes, Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday, accusing them of "a chilling wave of abductions, torture and summary killings".   The London-based rights group named five Syrian anti-regime factions operating in northern Syria: Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, hardliner Ahrar al-Sham, Nureddin Zinki, the Levant

The Left stands with the Islamist thought police

By | 2016-07-19T15:50:10-04:00 July 19th, 2016|Op-Eds|

The interview with Die Zeit is astonishing: “I feel much freer in Algeria than in France.” This shocking disclosure is from an Algerian writer who collected literary prizes in France, from the Mauriac to the Goncourt for his first novel.   On January 31, 2016, Kamel Daoud published an article on the events in Cologne

Why is Shi’ite Iran backing Sunni Hamas?

By | 2016-07-19T15:28:12-04:00 July 19th, 2016|News|

Hamas politburo member Mussa Abu Marzouk recently touted the "natural" ties between his Sunni terrorist organization and Shi'ite Iran, the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.   Speaking to the Turkish Anadolu Agency, Marzouk claimed there was no contradiction in the ties - even though Iran is fighting Sunni factions in Syria, Iraq

Official PA TV teacher of Islam: ‘The Jews are a people of lies’

By | 2016-07-19T09:53:38-04:00 July 19th, 2016|News|

After two Israelis were murdered last week, and several more injured, Palestinian Authority incitement  against Jews continues unabated.   Palestinian Media Watch, an NGO dedicated to exposing incitement and Jew-hatred in Palestinian media,    has published a translated video in which a top Islamic scholar, speaking on official PA television, claims    that the Jews

Truth for Giulio Regeni

By | 2016-07-11T04:44:32-04:00 July 11th, 2016|Press Releases|

For over four months, the Egyptian government has refused to submit the documents requested by the Italian judicial authorities concerning the assassination of Giulio Regeni, an Italian citizen.    Reaction to Regeni’s death was reflected in the Italian Parliament with the approval in the Senate on June 28 of an amendment that blocks the sale

Verita’ per Giulio Regeni

By | 2016-07-11T04:27:18-04:00 July 11th, 2016|Press Releases|

Per oltre quattro mesi il governo Egiziano ha rifiutato di presentare i documenti richiesti dalle autorità giudiziarie Italiana, in merito all’assassinio di Giulio Regeni, cittadino Italiano.  La reazione su quel delitto si è concretizzata nelle aule del Parlamento Italiano con l'approvazione in Senato il 28 giugno di un emendamento che blocca la fornitura all’Egitto dei

Vatican ecumenism forsakes Egypt’s Christian minorities

By | 2016-06-24T13:55:41-04:00 June 24th, 2016|Op-Eds|

Pope Francis, who is “building bridges to build peace” around the world, has naturally reached out to embrace Sunni Muslims. Last month, for the first time after years of Vatican silence, Pope Francis summoned to his private library in Rome grand imam Ahmed El-Tayeb of Cairo’s Al-Ahzar Mosque Institute. Absent a press release before this