A Nigeria court postponed on Tuesday the beginning of a highly anticipated trial over the killing of dozens of Catholic worshippers in a church massacre that rocked the nation's usually safer southwest region and drew international condemnation.

On June 5, 2022, gunmen attacked Saint Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria's Ondo state, killing at least 40 worshippers and injuring many others.

It was a rare assault in Nigeria's southwest, with jihadist attacks and mass kidnappings typically limited to the country's northeast, where an insurgency has been grinding on for more than a decade.

On Tuesday, in what was supposed to be the first day of proceedings, five men charged with carrying out the attack stood before a judge at the Federal High Court in downtown Abuja, dressed in brightly colo

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