Justice Minister and former GP Phillip Lee told the Tory party conference that during home visits, he rarely met Jews, Muslims or Hindus.
His words were echoed by care minister Jackie Doyle-Price who claimed ethnic minorities are better at looking after the elderly.
Louise Morse from the Christian charity Pilgrims' Friend Society told Premier's News Hour it's not that simple.
She explained: "We can be kinder and more mindful but on the other hand, most people are people who are barely managing. Couples who are going out to work -the wife goes out to work, by the time she comes back, she's really too exhausted to do the community care that these ministers are advocating."
Lee also said families needed to face up to 'uncomfortable' truths about the demands of looking after elderly parents or grandparents, rather than expecting the state to care for them.
He said: "'I want to be cared for and looked after by people who know me and I know them.
"I don't want to see a stranger knocking on the door with a meal. I want to see somebody that I know - a friend, somebody in my family.
"I think care is much better delivered by people who truly care, not people who are paid to care."
Morse condemned Lee's comments, which failed to appreciate how Christians support the elderly and said it "feels to me that this government is once again going to abdicate its responsibility to older people".
Speaking during News Hour she said: "We know that Churches are reaching out into their communities and inviting their communities in. So Christians are stepping up to the plate.
"So I think that Christians in all honesty, are doing as much as they can but to be told that they're unkind neighbours and that they're neglecting their families in the way that these two ministers have said - I think it's both ignorance on the part of the ministers and I think it's an insult to the Christians who are working like hamsters on a wheel to do their very best."
Listen to Louise Morse speaking with Premier's Eno Adeogun:
