Pope Francis to celebrate Mass in Mongolia

The Pope’s visit to the country, which has just 1,500 Catholics, ends today with a Mass held at an outdoor ice hockey arena. The head of the Roman Catholic Church made the visit with an eye on Mongolia’s neighbours, Russia and China.

Also on the programme: As the Nobel Prize Foundation rescinds its prize ceremony invites to Russian, Belarusian and Iranian ambassadors, the Norwegian organisers of the Nobel Peace Prize insist officials from those countries will still be invited; and festival-goers at Burning Man in the US have been warned to conserve their food and water after torrential rain turned the site into a vast mud bath

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are Jamaican-born writer and playwright Patricia Cumper and Lord Peter Ricketts, former National Security Adviser to the UK government and now a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.

(IMAGE: Pope Francis outside a yurt on the premises of the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cathedral in Ulaanbaatar CREDIT: CIRO FUSCO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)