A Common Word Between Us and You DC for President Barack Obama on 21 January 2009. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright referred to A Common Word during her testimony before the US Senate in February 2009, and Pope Benedict XVI referred to A Common Word on several occasions on 8 and 9 May 2009, during the course of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In the course of 2008 "A Common Word" inspired a number of initiatives between Muslims and Christians, including: Nearly 700 articles have appeared about "A Common Word" in English language press outlets around the world. Virtually every newspaper in the Middle
Secretary of State (Ancien Régime) their offices required purchase (between 500,000 and 900.,000 livres), and this fee usually included a certificate, or "brevet de retenue", permitting reimbursement in the case of demission. There were generally four, sometimes five, secretaries of state: The positions of Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and of War were constant, but the attributes and number of the other secretaries varied over time. There was no Secretary of the Interior, as the secretaries of state divided administration of the provinces between themselves: There was no secretary of state of justice (this was fulfilled by the Chancellor of France) nor of Finances