Artur Krasniqi

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Artur Krasniqi (born 9 December 1977 in Peja, then SFR Yugoslavia) is a Kosovar Albanian pastor who leads the Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church and its church in downtown Pristina. He has clashed with local Muslims over burial rights. His father, Nikë Krasniqi, was Roman Catholic and converted to Protestantism during military service in Croatia, then returned to Kosovo and began preaching. The first Protestant-evangelical church in Kosovo was inaugurated on 16 June 1985. Krasniqi attended Eqerem Çabej High School and studied theology at Eqerem Çabej University. He is fluent in Albanian, English, and Serbo-Croatian.