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.

Gender equality? PA urges women to murder Jews with rocks

By | 2015-11-06T18:20:26-04:00 November 6th, 2015|News|

The incessant terror incitement of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has shown a new twist, as Mahmoud Abbas's organization is giving signs that it's all for gender equality - when it comes to using rocks to murder Jews, that is.   Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official daily of the PA - which ironically has stood back amid

Former president admits Iran pursuing nuclear weapons

By | 2015-11-06T18:01:27-04:00 November 6th, 2015|Reports|

Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani reportedly admitted that Iran began its nuclear program with the intention of pursuing nuclear weapons capability.   In a lengthy interview with state-run IRNA news agency - which does not appear on the agency's English-language website - Rafsanjani recounted how the decision to launch a nuclear program began

Temple Mount cleric calls to restore Caliphate, annihilate Jews

By | 2015-11-06T13:23:59-04:00 November 6th, 2015|News|

A Palestinian preacher held a rally calling for the Muslim Caliphate to return and 'annihilate' Jews on Saturday, as he stood at Judaism's holiest site.    "Allah willing, the Caliphate will be the one to liberate Jerusalem very soon, after annihilating the rulers of the wicked [Arab] mini-states,... and it will annihilate the Jewish entity,"

Hamas official says Israeli Arabs aid the intifada

By | 2015-11-06T13:08:18-04:00 November 6th, 2015|News|

Senior Hamas politburo official Fathi Hamad has called for an increase in the terror wave sweeping Israel, and said Arab citizens of Israel are using their status to betray the state and facilitate the attacks.   Hamad, who previously served as Interior Minister in the Hamas terrorist government in Gaza, made the statements in an

Abbas’s Fatah in new knife incitement campaign: Victory or death

By | 2015-11-06T12:26:24-04:00 November 6th, 2015|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has escalated its calls for terror, with a campaign glorifying stabbing attacks against Jews.   Fatah last Friday posted on its official Facebook page an image of a masked man with a knife in his hand and two fingers held up in a V for "Victory," as

Jordanian sheikh issues fatwah against killing Jews

By | 2015-11-02T15:12:02-04:00 November 2nd, 2015|Islam|

A well known Salafi sheikh in Jordan has caused wide outrage in the Muslim world, after issuing a fatwa (Islamic ruling) in a video making the rounds online in which he forbids murdering Jews outside the context of war and clashes.   Sheikh Ali Halabi, head of the Imam al-Albani religious studies center, is seen

Hamas: ‘1948 and 1967 are Temporary Borders’

By | 2015-10-30T14:12:14-04:00 October 30th, 2015|News|

Hamas continues to make clear that its ultimate goal is to drive all Jews out of what it perceives to be “Palestinian land”.   Senior Hamas member Mahmoud al-Zahar on Wednesday said he sees the latest terror wave as a springboard for “the liberation of all of Palestine”.   "The struggle against the occupation is

Hamas ‘Reenacts’ Jerusalem Bus Attack

By | 2015-10-30T13:11:07-04:00 October 30th, 2015|News|

The Hamas student group in Gaza has released a shocking video "reenacting" the lethal attack on the 78 line bus in Jerusalem this Tuesday, in which Arab terrorists murdered two Jews and wounded 15 others.   The video, revealed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), can be viewed below. Viewer discretion is advised.   {youtube}NkqgR0_4E74{/youtube}  

Abbas’s Fatah Demanded Jerusalem Terror Day Before Massacre

By | 2015-10-30T12:21:07-04:00 October 30th, 2015|News|

The Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to step up its incitement to terrorism, and just this Monday made an open call for attacks in Jerusalem - a day before three Jews were murdered in two attacks in the city.   Fatah posted on its official Twitter account on Monday a

Embarrassed PLO Rewrites Abbas Speech – And Still Gets it Wrong

By | 2015-10-28T16:16:03-04:00 October 28th, 2015|News|

After Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was embarrassingly called out on his false claim that Israel had "executed" an Arab child for no reason in Jerusalem, the Palestine Liberation Organization he chairs has tried to engage in some emergency damage control - by retroactively rewriting the speech he gave Wednesday night.   Abbas had accused