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.

Eight Iranian ‘Volunteers’ Killed Fighting ISIS in Syria

By | 2015-06-26T23:54:20-04:00 June 26th, 2015|News|

Eight Iranian fighters have been buried in Iran Thursday after they were killed fighting ISIS in Syria, according to Iranian state media.   Three of the men, all of whom were described as "volunteers," were buried in the capital Tehran, while the others were buried in the northeastern city of Mashhad, according to the official

Islamic State Making Gains Across Syria

By | 2015-06-26T23:18:28-04:00 June 26th, 2015|News|

Islamic State terrorists reentered the Syrian Kurdish battleground town of Kobane on Thursday, detonating a suicide bomb and battling Kurdish forces, a monitoring group said, according to AFP.    "ISIS detonated a suicide bomb in the area near the border crossing with Turkey, killing at least five people," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director

ISIS Suicide Bombers Strike Near Children’s Hospital

By | 2015-06-26T23:05:10-04:00 June 26th, 2015|News|

Two suicide bombers from the Islamic State (ISIS) group have killed 10 Syrian soldiers in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday.   Separately, at least 13 civilians were killed in a car bomb attack against a mosque in a village near the capital Damascus, the monitor said.  

Khamenei Rules Out Lengthy Freezing of Nuclear Work

By | 2015-06-26T22:45:38-04:00 June 26th, 2015|News|

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday ruled out freezing sensitive nuclear work in the country for a lengthy time period, Reuters reported.   Khamenei also reiterated Iran’s demand that sanctions imposed on it be lifted as soon as a final deal with major powers is reached.   "Freezing Iran's Research and Development (R&D)

‘Tis the Season: ISIS Calls for Ramadan Martyrdom

By | 2015-06-24T13:39:24-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

Islamic State (ISIS) group spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani called on Tuesday for Muslims to engage in jihad and become martyrs during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.   Adnani also announced an amnesty for people who fought against ISIS in Iraq's Anbar province, and called on residents who had fled violence there to return home.

Kurds Advance on ISIS’s ‘Capital’

By | 2015-06-24T13:16:03-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

Syrian Kurds and allied rebels advanced against the Islamic State (ISIS) group on Tuesday, capturing a strategic town a day after seizing a base from the jihadists near their Raqa bastion.   A spokesman for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and a Britain-based monitor said the anti-ISIS forces had taken Ain Issa on Tuesday,

New ISIS Low: Caged Drowning, Decapitation Necklaces

By | 2015-06-24T02:36:16-04:00 June 24th, 2015|News|

The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) group has spread horror by callously beheading victims and burning them to death - on Tuesday the terror group reached a new low by unveiling gruesome new ways to murder.   In a seven-minute video from ISIS's Nineveh branch based in its stronghold of Mosul, the terrorists reinvented their horrific

Egypt Kills 22 Suspected Terrorists in the Sinai

By | 2015-06-23T22:42:37-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

Egyptian security forces on Monday killed 22 suspected terrorists who were planning to target security forces in the restive North Sinai province, security sources said, according to Reuters.   The sources said security forces struck a group of people meeting outside a mosque south of the town of Sheikh Zuwayed who were planning an attack

American Airstrike Kills ‘Person of Interest’ in Benghazi Attack

By | 2015-06-23T22:27:03-04:00 June 23rd, 2015|News|

An American airstrike in northern Iraq has killed an Islamic State (ISIS) operative who was a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, the Pentagon said Monday, according to AFP.   Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren identified the operative as Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-'Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia, who was killed in Mosul