The authors of the communication are Riitta Liisa Kasper and Illka Olavi Sopanen, both Finnish nationals.

Caspar Wistar (September 13, 1761 January 22, 1818) was an American physician and anatomist.

Submitted by Riitta Liisa Kasper and Illka Olavi Sopanen (represented by counsel, Mr. Martti Tapio Juvonen)

Cardinal Casper is well regarded in Russia for being the man who returned Our Lady of Kazan to its homeland.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (), also known as Wanderer Above the Mist, is an oil painting composed in 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.

In 2002, the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the University of Münster analyzed hair and body cells from locks of hair and items of clothing that also belonged to Kaspar Hauser.

Recently, another key Vatican figure, Cardinal Walter Casper, the head of the Council for Christian Unity, called for a Catholic Orthodox high level meeting that would address unifying both branches of Christianity.

Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1076 2002, submitted to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of Riitta Liisa Kasper and Illka Olavi Sopanen, under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

The fact that Pope Benedict and Cardinal Casper are both Germans is important, because Russian German relations are perhaps warmer now than they have ever been.

In his public speeches, Casper more than once suggested that the Vatican considers Christian unification its main goal, and most important from the Orthodox perspective that unity does not have to mean sameness.