Christians should resist persecution without violence, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is expected to say in his Easter Sunday sermon.
He will talk of those who have died in recent weeks for their faith.
Referring to the Coptic Christians who were murdered in Libya last month, the archbishop says they were killed because they were Christian martyrs.
Pope Francis will also express concern at the persecution of Christians during his "Urbi et Orbi" message in Rome.
On Friday at a ceremony at the Coloseum, the Pope said the international community was guilty of "complicit silence", in the face of attacks on Christians in many parts of the world.
Francis has voiced increasing alarm about attacks, which have led Christians to abandon communities in the Middle East.
Three days of national mourning are being held in Kenya for nearly one hundred and fifty people, many of them Christian, who were killed by Islamist militants last week.
Justin Welby is likely to say Christians must support persecuted communities, with "love and goodness and generosity".
BBC religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt says the archbishop is expected to speak of the need for all Christians to bear witness to Jesus Christ and the resurrection.
He will state that age, gender, politics and sexuality are irrelevant.
The archbishop will say: "Witnesses are those people who know Christ - lay or ordained, old or young, gender, politics, sexuality or whatever irrelevant - all are equally witnesses. To witness is to be a martyr.
"I am told by the Coptic Bishop in England that the Coptic Christians murdered in Libya last month died proclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord.
"They are martyrs, a word that means both one that dies for their faith and one that witnesses to faith.
"There have been so many martyrs in the last year. On Maundy Thursday, three days ago around 150 Kenyans were killed because of being Christian.
"They are witnesses, unwilling, unjustly, wickedly, and they are martyrs in both senses of the word."
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