Anglican and Lutheran churches across Canada will focus on the work being done in the Middle East this Sunday. 

Susan Johnson, the National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada says it's a chance to learn and pray for peace.

"The Sunday that we are about to commemorate ... is an opportunity for both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church in
Canada to remember and lift up our partners in Anglican and Lutheran churches in the area of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

"It is a way of lifting up local churches ministries, praying for peace in the holy land and an ongoing commitment to walking with them in ministry," Johnson says.

The Anglican and Lutheran churches are involved in this because "we thought this was an important way of lifting up both our full community relationship within Anglicans and Lutherans and our shared support of the region and Christians in the region by choosing the same day to speak on the Christian presence in the Holy Land."

Every congregation goes about a Holy Land Day services a little bit differently but the most common and important aspects of the service are, prayer, sharing information about the ministries the church is involved with or a sermon focus on this topic.

Some of the organizations Lutheran and Anglican churches are involved in in the Holy Land could be schools where Christians and Muslims attend school together and learn important values like diversity, tolerance, and peace.