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.

Rabbi Sacks understands Europe better than the Pope

By | 2016-06-17T10:28:48-04:00 June 17th, 2016|Op-Eds|

It is ironic that a Jewish religious leader understands Europe’s disaster more clearly than the Pope. It also    seems that Lord Sacks cares more about Europe’s roots than the head of Catholicism.   Pope John Paul II helped to topple Communism. Benedict XVI took on the “dictatorship of relativism” and    tried to re-evangelize

Trump said, Hillary said

By | 2016-06-16T23:49:11-04:00 June 16th, 2016|Op-Eds|

Trump said “Mexican Heritage,” Hilary said “German Heritage.”   It’s a case of he said, she said, but,the media only attacks what he said.    On the one hand, Donald Trump accuses a judge of “Mexican Heritage” of being biased against him in a    legal case, and we are told by the media that

ISIS looks to exterminate Yazidi minority

By | 2016-06-16T23:10:28-04:00 June 16th, 2016|News|

UN report reveals thousands of Yazidi sex slaves still held by ISIS terrorists. Arutz Sheva Staff   Islamic State jihadists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United    Nations rights investigators said Thursday.   “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing," Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry

French envoy in Egypt to push Paris initiative

By | 2016-06-16T21:32:15-04:00 June 16th, 2016|News|

A senior French envoy held talks in Egypt on Thursday on his country's bid to organize an international    conference later this year to impose a "two-state solution" on Israel, officials said.     Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians have been at a standstill since a US-led initiative    collapsed in April 2014.  

Iran says it spied on US aircraft carrier with drone

By | 2016-02-03T12:00:18-04:00 February 3rd, 2016|News|

Iranian state TV on Friday gloatingly claimed that an Iranian surveillance drone flew over an American aircraft carrier and photographed it during recent naval drills.   The TV report did not specify when the fly-by happened, did not name the US vessel, and did not even show any of the alleged images, reports Associated Press.

Resisting blasphemy laws in Egypt: Islam against Islam

By | 2016-02-03T05:34:58-04:00 February 3rd, 2016|Op-Eds|

Egypt’s deep state is a bureaucratic theocracy. This network forms the infrastructure of the official government. It is accountable to the doctrines put forth by the powerful Islamic clerics of Al-Ahzar Institute. The religion of Islam, when merged with the state, can better exert Allah’s powerful hold over the individual. Only then can it fulfill

Former Libyan official: ISIS got Qaddafi’s chemical weapons

By | 2016-02-03T05:13:39-04:00 February 3rd, 2016|News|

Libyan former intelligence official Ahmad Qadhaf Al-Dam recently said that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups had gotten hold of the chemical weapons that had remained in Libya from the regime of former dictator Muammar Qaddafi.   The comments by Al-Dam, who is a cousin of Qaddafi, were made in an interview with

Senior PFLP member calls to escalate the ‘intifada’

By | 2016-02-03T04:54:04-04:00 February 3rd, 2016|News|

Zaher al-Shishtari, one of the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group, on Wednesday called for the escalation of the current wave of terrorism against Israelis, which Palestinian Arab terrorist groups are referring to as the “Al-Quds Intifada”.   In a statement to Hamas’s website, al-Shishtari said that the