Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon focuses on persecution

In his Canterbury Cathedral sermon, he spoke of the 148 victims of a Kenyan university attack last week and Coptic Christians killed in Libya in February.

The Queen, Prince Philip, and members of the Royal Family attended an Easter service at Windsor Castle.

In his message, Pope Francis called for peace "above all" in Syria and Iraq.In his Easter "Urbi et Orbi" message, the Pope prayed for the students killed in Garissa in Kenya and called for more action to halt what he said was a "humanitarian tragedy" in Syria and Iraq.

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.

In February, 22 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya.