The Archbishop of Canterbury will call for an end to "violence and destruction" in the Middle East during her first Easter sermon as leader of the Church of England.
Dame Sarah Mullally will pray "with renewed urgency" for peace before a congregation at Canterbury Cathedral, as the US-Israel war against Iran enters its sixth week.
She will call for all people of the Middle East and the Gulf to "receive the peace, justice and freedom they long for".
Her Easter sermon comes just shy of a fortnight after her installation as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, during which she said her teenage self could "never have imagined the future that lay ahead".
She will tell the congregation on Sunday: "This week our gaze and our prayers have been turned towards the land where Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead.
