{"id":3136380,"date":"2026-04-01T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/tunaamini-miti\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:20:59","slug":"tunaamini-miti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/sw\/tunaamini-miti\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunaamini Miti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ilikua kutoka mji wa Uingereza<br\/>wenye ukubwa wa oxgang nne, ukilimwa<br\/>kwa vizazi vingi, ukienea<br\/>kote Cheshire ambapo John Sharps, mwema,<br\/>alihukumiwa, mwaka 1679,<br\/>kwa makosa dhidi ya serikali\u2014\u201ckushindwa kwake kimaadili\u201d<br\/>kukataa mara kwa mara kuhudhuria<br\/>Kanisa la Uingereza, kama ilivyorekodiwa<br\/>katika \u201cMkusanyiko wa Mateso<br\/>ya Watu Waitwao Quakers.\u201d<br\/>Mateso ya John yalimfanya aondoke<br\/>nyumbani kwa meli na William Penn. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibi yangu mwenyewe Sharps, aliyezaliwa<br\/>karne mbili baadaye, mnamo 1880, ndani<br\/>ya vilima vya West Virginia, aliniambia<br\/>wakati wazee walipofikia mara ya kwanza,<br\/>katika nchi waliyoiita Penn&#8217;s Woods,<br\/>walipata makazi katika matawi<br\/>ya mwaloni mweupe. Bibi alisema aliamini<br\/>mateso ya maisha yanastahimili vyema zaidi<br\/>katika uandamano wa miti, inayotoa<br\/>sauti ya Mungu. <br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iliyokua kutoka mji wa Kiingereza \/ wenye ukubwa wa oxgangs nne, uliofanywa kilimo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3136374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9775,9933],"tags":[],"fpb_issue_category":[25305],"class_list":["post-3136380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-sw","category-ushairi","fpb_issue_category-aprili-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tunaamini Miti - Friends Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shairi na Mary Alice Dixon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/sw\/tunaamini-miti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"sw_KE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tunaamini Miti - 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