Call charges rise today
CALL CHARGES across Cyprus have been streamlined, effective today.
The House Plenum yesterday approved a relevant to increase the price of local calls and decrease the price of trunk calls after months of refusing to vote on the bill.
The amendment gives the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) the green light to liberalise fixed-line telephone call rates.
The rate for fixed line calls across the island is now two cents for two minutes in peak hours and two cents for four minutes off-peak (nights, weekends and banks holidays)
The fee to obtain a landline connection also increases from £4 to £5.
The reforms bring Cyprus telephony into line with EU practices and demands.
CyTA has the power to change rates in the future if the EU deems it necessary, an official said yesterday.
Synod condemns abortion
THE HOLY Synod yesterday denounced the practice of abortion as murder in a meeting intended to be on euthanasia.
In an announcement after the meeting the Synod charged that abortion is a sin and constitutes the ‘killing of a human life’.
The gathering conceded that in the case of a pregnancy putting a woman’s life in danger, she could terminate it only after consulting her spiritual adviser.
The Synod also condemned suicide, describing it as ‘the biggest sin of all’ and officially expressed its view that the Church should not hold funeral services for those who commit suicide.
Kykkos Bishop Nikiforos said after the meeting that the Church allowed organ donations as ‘people can donate their organs with love if it does not endanger their lives.’
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