Monks on a 'Walk for Peace' across the Southeast are leaving Georgia. Take a look back at their stops in the state.

The above video shows monks walking through South Carolina before heading to North Carolina. A group of Buddhist monks, accompanied by their loyal dog, Aloka, are walking across multiple states as part of a Walk for Peace and plans to make stops in North Carolina.

The Walk for Peace just resumed, and today's walk will end with the monks no longer in Georgia. Where are they now? Where are they going?

Organizers said the monks, who are on Day 73 of their Walk for Peace, will rest overnight in McCormick County.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged Catholics to pray for peace, “first, among nations bloodied by conflict and suffering,” and also “within our homes, in families wounded by violence or pain,” during the Angelus address on the first day of 2026.

The Buddhist monks who are taking part in a 120+ day Walk for Peace across part of the United States have changed their route and will not come through the Upstate.

On Nov. 11, Phra-Ajarnh Maha Dam Phommasan was walking for peace with a group of other Buddhist monks on the side of the road about 30 miles east of Houston, Texas, when a car slammed into the monks’ escort vehicle, which then hit Phommasan.

At a Mass for the World Day of Peace, Dublin Archbishop Dermot Farrell called upon Ireland’s politicians to show leadership in promoting peace.

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