{"id":221108,"date":"2026-06-17T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221108\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:22:07","slug":"world-refugee-day-2026-marked-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221108\/","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day 2026 marked \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community is invited to participate Saturday in the 2026 World Refugee Day Celebration from 2-5 p.m. The new location for this year\u2019s event will be the Diocese of Scranton Pastoral Center, 330 Wyoming Ave., Scranton. The celebration will include cultural music and dance performances, refreshments, giveaways, games and activities for kids. More than 25 community agencies are working together to plan the celebration. Members of the planning committee include, from left, front row: Krishna Rai and Tek Khadka, Bhutanese Community of Scranton. Back row: Phil Yevics, Scranton Area Multifaith Ministerium; Ghana Rasaily, Bhutanese Community of Scranton; Toya Timsina, Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit; Tek Panday, Bhutanese Cultural Foundation Scranton Association; Audrey Golosky, United Neighborhood Centers; Mary Nehme, Catholic Social Services; Ana Becerril, Diocese of Scranton; Joseph Mahoney, Catholic Social Services; Fikile Ryder, Catholic Social Services; Julie Schumacher Cohen, University of Scranton; Daysi Carreto, University of Scranton; Maria Vital, Leahy Clinic; Jenny Gonzalez, STARS Program at Marywood University; Sister Donna Korba, I.H.M.; Rabbi Daniel Swartz, Temple Hesed; and the Rev. Tyler Perry, St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The community is invited to participate Saturday in the 2026 World Refugee Day Celebration from 2-5 p.m. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-221108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}