Colombian Catholics roll up sleeves to help hungry Venezuelan refugees

It’s 9 a.m., and volunteers at the Divine Providence Dining Hall are already busy making lunch. Women in red aprons chop dozens of carrots on a large wooden platter, while a man in his 50s flexes his muscles as he tries to mix pasta in a cauldron half his size. The volunteers are making 1,000 meals a day for Venezuelan immigrants who have been streaming into Colombia to escape poverty and violence in their country. Many are desperately short on cash and rely on the church-run dining hall for their only daily meal. More…