HOUSTON, Texas – For weeks, a group of Buddhist monks walking across the country on a 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” made their way through Texas before two members of the group were injured in a crash on U.S. 90 near Dayton on Wednesday.

The Walk for Peace began on Oct. 26 at the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth. A group of about two dozen monks set off on foot with a simple mission: to promote unity, healing, compassion, and inner peace across the United States.

Buddhist Monks hit by car in Dayton during peace walk

Organizers describe the pilgrimage not as a protest, but as a spiritual journey meant to “heal, inspire, and seed peace wherever their footsteps fall.” The route spans 10 states and will end at the nation’s Capitol and the White House in Washington, D.C.

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