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Seventh-Day Adventists

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  1. A denomination of Christians (see also Christian) who proclaim that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the very near future. Unlike practically all other Christians, they observe Saturday, rather than Sunday, as a Sabbath.


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There are one million members of the church in North America, according to the North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

The only inland blue zone is Loma Linda, California – one of the world's largest populations of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

The Dosses are Seventh-Day Adventists, but the film gives no sense of a religious community—or, if there is one, whether the Dosses are isolated in theirs.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2016

Enrollment in parochial schools supported by three Lutheran groups, Mennonites and Seventh-Day Adventists reached 133,366 in 1947, an increase of nearly 40% over 1937.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Purple was for non-Jewish religious prisoners, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, or Protestant or Catholic church leaders who opposed Hitler.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

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